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vocalists dressed in suits and skirts and ties like the Salvation Army, and the band master, Mr. Kasonga, a health ministry officer turned musician. He plays electric guitar, trains the vocalists and writes songs and skits which carry important health information to the villages: family planning, spacing your children, basic hygiene, disease prevention for malaria, cholera, typhoid and no w AIDS.
I remember feeling a mixture of relief and complete frustration. A consultant was in charge and not artists.
After two days of mostly talking we got down to the necessity of a basic script. The band master had written a story patterned after an old tale. It began:
“In the beginning, there was? a great King named Boki who was respected and loved by all. King Boki said:”
The story stopped. Everything that followed was about AIDS, ways of contracting the virus and ways to prevent spreading it. Poor King Boki had disappeared ' under the weight of facts and information that Mr. Kasonga felt compelled to communicate immediately. The consultant asked me what I thought. I told him that we loved the beginning and asked if there was some way to develop the story so that (the information about AIDS became part of the story line?
The officials agreed that a good story would help people to remember the right information. Everyone got to work, pulling chairs into a circle and moving around that circle in a democratic process that began to shape a story about the origin of the world and how disease and the incurable virus called AIDS was bom and became a plague dangerous to humans.
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