Africa: Let the African Child Speak - Language, Memory, and the Case for Reparations

[Africans Rising] On June 16 each year, Africa commemorates the Day of the African Child. It is a day marked by grief, pride, and an urgent call to reflection. It remembers the bravery of schoolchildren in Soweto, South Africa, who in 1976 rose up against a decree by the apartheid government that mandated Afrikaans; the language of their oppressors as the medium of instruction in schools. That march was met with deadly force. At least 176 children were killed, and many more injured. Among them was 13-year-old Hector Source