‘A lot of them Look at Us as Black Americans’: Miami Nonprofit Connects African-American Teens with Botswana to Expose them to African Culture and Dispel Myths of African Life

A group of Miami High School students are getting the experience of a lifetime, by going to the Motherland on the African continent. Edwin Sheppard, founder of Blindfolded International Student and Cultural Exchange Program is giving Black and brown teens an up-close and person experience of Botswana and dispelling negative myths that African is flooded in poverty, instead it is full of riches just waiting to be explored by more African Americans.