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![At left, 31-year-old Melia attended her first Afropunk event last year in Paris. "It's nice to meet people from everywhere. It's another way to look at Africa." At right, South Africa had its own festival to close out 2017. Image by Melissa Bunni Elian. South Africa, 2017.](data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg'%20viewBox%3D'0%200%20510%20315'%2F%3E "At left, 31-year-old Melia attended her first Afropunk event last year in Paris. "It's nice to meet people from everywhere. It's another way to look at Africa." At right, South Africa had its own festival to close out 2017. Image by Melissa Bunni Elian. South Africa, 2017.")
Lesson Plans
Exploring Afropunk's Global Influence
Students explore Afropunk as a global social catalyst and consider art and fashion's relationship to identity, culture, and social movements.
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Who owns the land in South Africa is a hugely contested question. Dominion informs data-driven...
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South African schools have long faced major infrastructure problems. Adam Yates investigates the...
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Project
The Globalization of AFROPUNK
AFROPUNK connects the African Diaspora not only through music, but also socially and politically...
![At left, 31-year-old Melia attended her first Afropunk event last year in Paris. "It's nice to meet people from everywhere. It's another way to look at Africa." At right, South Africa had its own festival to close out 2017. Image by Melissa Bunni Elian. South Africa, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/afropunk1.jpg.webp?h=9bd577d8&itok=9e-5an67 "At left, 31-year-old Melia attended her first Afropunk event last year in Paris. "It's nice to meet people from everywhere. It's another way to look at Africa." At right, South Africa had its own festival to close out 2017. Image by Melissa Bunni Elian. South Africa, 2017.")
![A pile of old textbooks at Utjane Primary School in Limpopo. Many rural schools lack libraries as well as other components of a "basic education." Image by Adam Yates. South Africa, 2018.](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/09-23-18/dsc_0821.jpg.webp?h=c5703399&itok=eMrOBp0a "A pile of old textbooks at Utjane Primary School in Limpopo. Many rural schools lack libraries as well as other components of a "basic education." Image by Adam Yates. South Africa, 2018.")
