Dudziro Nhengu, Midlands State University, Zimbabwe

This paper explored the role and value of games, visual arts, and crafts in both formal and informal peace education processes in Africa, focusing on country case studies from Southern and West Africa. Games, visual arts, and crafts are powerful tools for formal and informal education in Africa. They engage people in an interactive, inclusive, and creative way, enabling them to explore intricate issues in a relaxed manner. The use of a scoping study method to put together literature for compiling secondary data for the study was corroborated with telephone interviews with 6 women informal peace educators and 6 peace students from both formal and informal peace education backgrounds. The research established the power of games, art and crafts as indigenous methods for peace education from antiquity Africa to date, the symbiotic relationship between artistic expressions and society, the value of games, arts and crafts as stimulants for emotional intelligence and the relationship between positive emotional intelligence and peace.

Peace education, Women, Games, Artistic expressions, Crafts