Article 20
Youth and culture
1. States Parties shall take the following steps to promote and protect the morals and traditional values recognised by the community:
a) Eliminate all traditional practices that undermine the physical integrity and dignity of women;
b) Recognise and value beliefs and traditional practices that contribute to development;
c) Establish institutions and programmes for the development, documentation, preservation and dissemination of culture;
d) Work with educational institutions, youth organisations, the media and other partners to raise awareness of and teach and inform young people about African culture, values and indigenous knowledge;
e) Harness the creativity of youth to promote local cultural values and traditions by representing them in a format acceptable to youth and in a language and in forms to which youth are able to relate;
f) Introduce and intensify teaching in African languages in all forms of education as a means to accelerate economic, social, political and cultural development;
g) Promote inter-cultural awareness by organising exchange programmes between young people and youth organisations within and across States Parties.
2. States Parties recognise that the shift towards a knowledge-based economy is dependent on information and communication technology which in turn has contributed towards a dynamic youth culture and global consciousness. In this regard, they shall:
a) Promote widespread access to information and communication technology as a means for education, employment creation, interacting effectively with the world and building understanding, tolerance and appreciation of other youth cultures;
b) Encourage the local production of and access to information and communication technology content;
c) Engage young people and youth organisations to understand the nexus between contemporary youth culture and traditional African culture, and enable them to express this fusion through drama, art, writing, music and other cultural and artistic forms;
d) Help young people to use positive elements of globalisation such as science and technology and information and communication technology to promote new cultural forms that link the past to the future;
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