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Day of The African Child

By Phares Mutembei

Children from all over Africa are celebrating the Day of the African Child today. This is a day celebrated every year on June 16 in respect of hundreds of school children who were killed by police in South Africa. On one fateful morning of the same date, way back in 1976, about 20,000 children poured onto the streets to protest against the low quality education they were receiving.

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