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Few Kenyans noticed that yesterday was the International Day of the African Child.
This is a day marked annually on June 16. It was first established by the Organisation of the African Unity (the forerunner of the African Union) in 1991 and it aims at raising awareness for the situation of children in Africa, and on the need for continuing improvement in education. It also commemorates and honours those who participated in the uprising in 1976 in Soweto, South Africa, when thousands of black school children took to the streets to protest against the inferior quality of their education during the Apartheid regime. The security forces responded with violence resulting in more than a 100 people killed and thousands injured.
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