Day of the African Child

African child, African youth is forsaken?

In the year 1976 in Soweto South Africa, thousands of black school children flocked in streets to demonstrate for more than half a kilometer to protest against poor education and to demand to be taught in their own language.

Street March organised for the Day of the African Child (June 16, 2008)

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Street march organised for the Day of the African Child. The march was organised by Araya Le Ethiopia, a youth group based in Addis Ababa.

Day of the African Child

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In Soweto, South Africa, thousands of black school children took to the streets in 1976, in a march more than half a mile long, to protest the inferior quality of their education and to demand their right to be taught in their own language.

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