Youth called to take up the baton
Young people gathered in Soweto last week Friday, not only to commemorate the past but to argue about its present meaning. From Avalon Cemetery to Morris Isaacson High School, the launch of the #YouthLivesMatter campaign unfolded as a moving procession through sites embedded in South Africa’s democratic memory but also as an urgent reckoning with the conditions shaping young lives today.
Young people gathered in Soweto last week Friday, not only to commemorate the past but to argue about its present meaning. From Avalon Cemetery to Morris Isaacson High School, the launch of the #YouthLivesMatter campaign unfolded as a moving procession through sites embedded in South Africa’s democratic memory but also as an urgent reckoning with the conditions shaping young lives today.