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Chapter III – The Need for Active Participation by Youth in National Cultural Life
Article 9
Continuous cultural development in Africa rests with its young people. Therefore
the African States should create conditions for the active and enlightened participation of
young people in African cultural life.
Article 10
The African States shall endeavour to raise continually the cultural awareness of
young people through the introduction of African cultural values into education and
through the organization of national and Pan-African festivals, conferences, seminars and
training and refresher courses.
Article 11
The cultural policies of the various States shall ensure that young African people
also have the means of familiarizing themselves with the whole of African and other
civilizations in order to prepare them for fruitful inter-cultural relations.
PART IV
TRAINING AND LIFE-LONG EDUCATION
Chapter V – Training
Article 12
Professional training is as important both for cultural development as for economic
and social development. Consequently, the African States should devote themselves to
creating conditions favouring large scale participation of culture by the African working
class and peasant at the actual work-sites.
Article 13
To achieve the aim laid down in the preceding Article, States should adopt a training
policy for specialists at all levels and in all fields.
Article 14
Professional training for creative artists should be improved, renewed and adapted
to modern methods, without breaking the umbilical cord linking it with the traditional