Sounds of the Suburbs [Audio]

The Radio Department of the Panos Institute West Africa with support of Unesco, organised a training workshop in Ghana for its Anglophone radio correspondents The workshops' end result was the design of an Oral Testimony production support project called "Sounds of the Suburbs". The objective of the project was to focus on the lif of youngsters in complex multicultural surroundings. Through this radio production project, Panos West Africa aimed to get the views of the youngsters themselves. The organisers state that these views are often ignored by traditional urban media, especially if such youngsters come from socially marginalised areas as suburbs and ghettos.

The audio documentaries (16 in total) are targeted at teenagers and young adults, aimed at increasing intercultural awareness and sensitising young generations on humanity's need for tolerance, dialogue and peace. Each testimony provides a reflection on the conflict-generating issues between communities and the solutions that can be found both individually or at community level.

Some of the documentraies include:

• "Can any good ever come out of Saigon" - New Kru Town / Monrovia (Liberia)
• "An intruiging Lagos suburb, Ajegunle" - Lagos (Nigeria)
• "Nima, a slum in Accra" - Accra (Ghana)
• "The Greenland area in Banjul" - Banjul (The Gambia)
• "The King Jimmy suburb in the centre of Freetown" - Freetown (Sierra Leone)

Producer: Panos Institute West Africa