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International Day of the African Child - June 16
June 18 , 2021
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- The day was set aside to raise awareness of the importance of education for children in Africa.
- The day not only honours the participants of the Soweto Uprising in 1976 but also raises awareness of the imperative need for improvement of the education of African children.
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- On June 16th, 1976, thousands of black students from Soweto, South Africa, took to the streets to protest.
- It was the protest for the prevailing disparity in the education system that preferred quality education for the whites over the black population in Africa.
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