Mois de L’Histoire des Noirs 2025:ADA, the 2025 ETFO Black History Month poster, offers a stunning visual that reflects the brilliance and resourcefulness of African Canadians. Traditional African mask making traditions use wood to carve ancestral faces, though this mask, created with approximately 6500 pieces of LEGO, creates angular forms that add new futuristic textures to the age-old practice.  

This image is in honour of trailblazer Ada Kelly Whitney of Windsor, the first Black person to teach in a publicly funded school in Ontario. The strength and subtlety of the face in the mask is representative of how, though her story is little-known, Ada represents courage, determination, and wisdom.  The stars are a nod to Afrofuturism and show how vast and endless the possibilities are for the future of Black youth in Ontario and beyond.
 
The artist for this year's poster is Ekow Nimako.
 
For more information, please contact Matthew Sinclair msinclair@etfo.org.

ETFO members can find past resources and curriculum documents at members.etfo.ca.

Past Black History Month Posters: