SCENARIOS FROM AFRICA is a community mobilization, education and media process about HIV/AIDS carried out with and for young people.

The process started life in 1997 as SCENARIOS FROM THE SAHEL, drawing inspiration from "3,000 Scenarios against a virus", a project implemented in France between 1992 and 1994 by CRIPS and its partners.

SCENARIOS FROM AFRICA gives children and young adults an exciting opportunity to educate themselves and others about HIV/AIDS by inviting them to participate with internationally acclaimed directors in the production of a growing collection of short films.

The films are based on ideas thought up by young people in a series of contests. So far, more than 145,000 young people from 47 African countries have taken part in these contests. Over 1,500 local and international partner organizations are involved in carrying out the contests and selecting the winning ideas.

Thirty-three short fiction films are currently available. Some of the films are very touching, others extremely funny. They are distributed on a non-commercial basis across Africa and well beyond, for broadcast on national television stations, international satellite networks, and the Internet.

SCENARIOS films have been broadcast on locally-based television stations in almost every country in sub-Saharan Africa, including on over 20 stations in Nigeria alone. The films are also collected on 3 regional, multi-language DVD sets for use at community level. They are available in a wide and growing range of African and European languages and are reaching tens of millions of people.

SCENARIOS FROM AFRICA is coordinated by GLOBAL DIALOGUES, a non-profit organization (UK charity no. 1071484) dedicated to promoting excellence in communication about HIV/AIDS.

A 2005 book chapter overview of the SCENARIOS FROM AFRICA process can be found at:

Young Voices Travel Far: a case study of Scenarios from Africa, in Oscar Hemer and Thomas Tufte (eds): Media and Glocal Change: Rethinking Communication for Development, Buenos Aires, CLACSO, 2005 (PDF, 14 pages)

Additional documents pertaining to specific SCENARIOS activities are presented in the respective sections of this website.