“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”- Nelson Mandela. Research has shown that the concept of education is beyond the ability to read and write, but rather a paradigm shift that involves the acquisition of knowledge, information, critical thinking,...
The streets are filled with an alarming increase of out-of-school children and today, more children face the risk of being abducted while in schools. This is an emergency! Two years ago, during my visit to one of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps in Kaduna state, I met a young girl,...
ARDA staff are pictured with the Women’s Critical Discussion Group members in Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Plateau, Kogi and Benue states. ARDA has been working extensively on the Community Initiatives to Promote Peace (CIPP) project and recently we embarked on community monitoring visits across...
The recent events in the United States on the 6th of January shocked the world.The land of freedom and promoters of democracy worldwide suddenly had theirown crisis of democracy.Dozens of American citizens stormed their parliamentary building, The Capitol in anattempt to stop the confirmation of a...
Gone were the days, gender-based violence seemed far. These days almost every girl or woman you meet has at a point in time been a victim of abuse.Gender-based violence is defined as any form of a harmful act perpetrated against a person’s will. GBV can be physical, sexual, emotional,...
Sometimes, a task seems so daunting just uttering it comes with a gasp. We were going to stage a whole drama, The Wives’ Revolt by the legendary JP Clark. That wasn’t the daunting part- at ARDA pride ourselves on our creativity no matter the medium. What WAS daunting was the fact that we were...
Recently at ARDA, we’ve all been really busy bringing Phase 2 of Mercy Corps’ ‘Using the Airwaves for stabilization in the Lake Chad Basin’ Project to life. The project sees ARDA producing a radio variety programme with factual historical, cultural and educational elements as well as a drama...
ARDA, the foremost Development Communication NGO in Nigeria, with over 20 years of changing norms and behaviours through drama and entertainment, is excited to celebrate International Women’s Month with the production of The Wives’ Revolt, a stage play by the literary icon, JP Clark....