This year’s poster spans generations and continents to tie together the past, present, and future. It blends traditional West African folklore, imagery, and concepts with curriculum-based African Canadian history and the importance of looking to the future.

#FutureGriot is a hashtag that captures the reality that all Black students will ascend from their present experience of being learners to one day being the keepers of history and knowledge that can be shared through the long-kept practice of oral storytelling.

Black Canadians are never alone on our journeys, as our ancestors are always with us.

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The images in this year’s poster spans generations and continents to tie the past, present, and future. It features traditional West African folklore, imagery, and concepts with curriculum based African Canadian history and the importance of looking to the future. #FutureGriot is a hashtag that captures the reality that all Black students will ascend from their present experience of being learners to one day being the keepers of history and knowledge which can be shared through the long-kept practice of oral storytelling. As the title makes clear, every journey that Black Canadians are on, means we are never alone as our ancestors are always with us.

This year’s artist is Destinie Adelakun.