About Day of the African Child

The Day of the African child has been celebrated on June 16 every year since 1991. It was first initiated by the Organization of African Unity. It is in honour of the children who participated in the Soweto uprising in 1976 when about 10,000 black school children in south Africa matched in a column more than a half a mile long, protesting against apartheid-inspired education. They demanded to be taught in their own language, which resulted in the killing of unarmed young protestors by the… Read More