Casa África showcases the work of secondary school students participating in “Teaching Africa”

This morning, Casa África opened the exhibition Teaching Africa, which is the result of an educational project of the same name that has been implemented during this academic year in the classrooms of 235 teachers from 31 schools in six of the Canary Islands, reaching about 8,000 students. In the presentation of this exhibition, which brings together school work around a teaching unit with African content in all subjects, a group of students who have worked on the project participated in activities including a workshop by the Hermanos Thioune. The presentation was attended by the director general of Ordering, Innovation and Educational Development of the Government of the Canary Islands, Rafael Bailón; project coordinators, Ezequiel Guerra and Ignacio Nadal; Josefa de la Rosa, manager of the University Centre for International Cooperation for Development (CUCID) and Arianne Hernández, general secretary of Casa África. The students were from the secondary schools Guanarteme, Guillermina Brito, Valsequillo and Villa de Firgas. The exhibition will be open until 30 December.

Teaching Africa is a project developed as a collaboration between Casa África, the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) and the Government of the Canary Islands. It has been supported by Binter, the Ramón Areces Foundation, the University Foundation of Las Palmas (FULP) and CUCID as well as the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar (Senegal). It is an educational initiative arising from the evidence of the scant knowledge Spanish adolescents have about Africa, after the completion of previous studies on the perceptions of secondary school pupils about Africa and the African presence in textbooks. The works presented in Casa África have been made by students from the Canary Islands who have completed this teaching module and have expressed their knowledge and interests in the form of murals, photographs, drawings, comics, texts and audiovisual materials.