The AfriCAN Magazine

AfriCAN Youth

What is AFRICAN NATIONAL YOUTH COUNCIL (ANYC)?

Africa National Youth Council (ANYC) is a UK-African development and communication strategy and platform designed to work in partnership with young people to improve opportunities for their expression, exchange and meaningful participation in advocacy, decision-making and development using multi-media tools and channels (i.e. online, TV, Radio and Print) as well as visual and performing arts and culture.

While a Secretariat for Africa National Youth Council (ANYC) is currently hosted by Bradford, the governance structure for ANYC provides for leadership of partnerships and activities in various UK Cities and African countries by partner agencies (RCOs, CBOs, Charities, NGOs working on/with children and youth, associations, youth clubs etc). ...More

My Hero Behind Bars

By Mary F.

Today I go to school with a big smile like every day. I sit in the classroom and everybody is laughing around me and I ask myself, what if everybody had the same problem as me, would they keep laughing?
I do not think so because you don't feel like laughing when your father is in jail and today is the day when he's set to be sentenced.

Magic at My Fingertips

By Rose A.

When I was 9 and still living in Uganda, I wondered why my two teenage cousins liked to paint their nails. It seemed like a waste of time. I was curious to know what was fun about it, so one day I snuck into their room and put on their black nail polish while they were out at work. The nails looked terrible. I painted too thick in some spots and painted onto my fingers in others. But I had fun doing it. It looked like magic to me. Looking at other girls, I realized that in order to get better-looking painted nails, I needed to grow my nails long. The only problem was that long nails weren’t allowed in my school, and I eventually got in trouble for my new hobby.