“I use part two of the film, ‘How Do You Make Your Dalasi?,’ at the beginning of my course on African development. The students really appreciate the opportunity to see the workings of a real African marketplace. It really brings the marketplace alive for the students. I am able to use what the students see in the film as points of reference for a number of different subjects throughout the semester.
“I plan to use the third part of the film on community development this year in my class to provide my students with a sense of how community development projects work.
“If I were teaching a political science course or one that considered issues of reconciliation, I would definitely show the section on Sierra Leone. It shows with real poignancy issues of reconciliation that exist in a country wracked by conflict.”
Jeremy Foltz
Professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics
University of Wisconsin, Madison