Oprah Opens a School
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In 2009, Oprah announced that she was founding the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in Gauteng province, South Africa. The show on which she discussed the opening of the school was a mix of charity, celebrity savoir-ism, and complicated American-African dynamics.
Special Guest: Elizabeth Todd Breland, historian who studies education and education reform.
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Producer Nina Earnest, Executive Producer Jody Avirgan. Artwork by Jonathan Conda.
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