This Youth Day, in partnership with Homies, OkayAfrica honors the legacy of the “Soweto Uprising” by celebrating a new generation of South African artists shaping culture on their own terms.
Photo by Lerato Mbawu
On June 16, 1976, thousands of Black South African students took to the streets of Soweto to protest the apartheid government’s imposition of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in schools. What began as a peaceful march turned into a…
