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After having delivered a copy to each of
the 20 students for reading it as part of
the evaluation process, they took the
initiative to preempt the final task of the
program and split into four teams to
take to the streets and share the contents
of the magazine with the public.
Their purpose was spreading the
strengthened African descent identity
especially in the four localities and
neighborhoods with more density of
Afro-Peruvian population: La Victoria,
Rimac, Barrios Altos and Callao.
Thusly, it was reinforced the intention
that people of African descent stop
refusing their identity and reassert
themselves as Afro-descendants during
the National Census 2017. It´s expected
that the governmental pollsters will ask
the question about ethno-racial identity.
The magazine has demonstrated that
young African descendants are hungry
for identity and want to know the reality

of their brothers and sisters in the
African Diaspora throughout the
Americas, where all of them live and
experience similar situations of poverty,
exclusion and structural discrimination.
We need to move from indignation to
action in order to fight for and to earn
the respect of the human rights as Afrodescendants.
Hence the magazine is well aligned with
the objectives of the school and become
a powerful engine that the students will
use to spread the identity of African
descent and the pride of the skin color
among the population.
In Ashanti Peru, we will continue to
promote training schools nationwide
and to get in contact with our people for
highlighting the Census 2017, but
especially for strengthening the AfroPeruvian identity through powerful
tools for calling to action, as the
magazine Identities does.

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