Africa Week

Africa Week is a new initiative this year, inspired by the school's recent partnerships with Kirima Parents’ Primary School and Great Lakes High School in Kanungu, Uganda and Noonkondin Secondary School in Eluai, rural Tanzania. The aim of the week is to celebrate the rich diversity of the continent, and to help pupils to differentiate between the vast range of climates, cultures, languages and history. As such, pupils are taking time in lessons to take part in an array of activities from learning Swahili to African music workshops to a Sixth Form debate over Decolonisation. There are also events dedicated to African themes in societies, lunchtimes, and after school.

Main events of the week:

Monday

Economics Society: “Why the African economy is not all doom and gloom,” 1.35pm, DH21
Italian Club: “The Italian Empire: Mussolini's Adventures in Africa” 1.30pm, Room 13
Creative Writing Workshop with Inua Ellams, 4.30pm, Mills Centre
Inua Ellams Performance, 6pm, Mills Centre

Tuesday

Physics Society: “Cosmic Africa”, 1.10pm, P3

Wednesday

Maasai jewellery making workshop, 1.15, DT4
African Philosophies forum, with Gemma Enolengila & Alena Rettova, 4.15pm, Mills Centre
“Photographing the Maasai”, a talk by Bob Webzell, 7pm, Mills Centre