Culture Shots #16

admin November 29, 2011

Culture Shots #16 (Intercultural Dialogue through Community Media) by Near Fm on Mixcloud

This is the sixteenth show of Culture Shots, part of a series of 13 programmes examining the meaning of culture and promoting intercultural understanding.

Tonight’s programme focuses on one specific use of community radio in East Africa. Shanette Budhai interviews Abjata Khalifat about pastoral societies in Kenya, what pastoral life is like, and how community radio is being used as a tool for mediating emerging issues within these societies.

Also featuring music by Toots & the Maytals.

This series is a part of the Intercultural Dialogue through Community Media project, which is co-financed by the European Commission under the European Integration Fund and is supported by the Office for the Promotion of Migrant Integration in the Department of Justice and Equality and Pobal.