Canary Islands students present their views of Africa at Casa África

Casa África this morning presented some of the work from students in Secondary education in the Canary Islands whose centres have joined the educational project Teaching about Africa: nearly fifty centres in La Gomera, La Palma, Tenerife, Gran Canaria and Lanzarote, who have aimed to bring to their classes and to work with the contents of a teaching unit, which focuses on the African continent .

This is a total of 200 teachers and about 6,000 students, who have made masks, murals, maps and various exhibitions in English, French and Spanish that cover topics such as African struggles related to the Canary Islands, the Tuareg and Dogon cultures or leading figures such as Miriam Makeba or Nelson Mandela.

Casa África and the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria  have been the main driving force of Teaching about Africa, an educational project whose main objective is to transfer to Spanish secondary school students a plural and diverse view of Africa, by incorporating a teaching unit that covers various issues related to Africa into their education. The project also has the support of the Ramón Areces Foundation and the Government of the Canary Islands.