Adding spice: collaborative video as an intersection between institutions and refugees in Dadaab, Kenya

This paper, presented at the 3rd Annual Forced Migration Student Conference 'Seeking Refuge, Seeking Rights, Seeking a Future', examines the creation of an original, targeted video about HIV/AIDS that was written and produced in the three Dadaab Refugee Camps of Northeastern Province, Kenya. The analysis seeks to clarify the role of participatory methodology in rewriting the concept of selfhood and the relations of power between agencies and refugees in the context of refugee encampment. The public health educational video project was undertaken as a collaboration between aid agencies (led by FilmAid International and United Nations World Food Programme - WFP) and Somali refugees, and presented an intersection between the two.