Monday, March 26, 2012

Burning down schools in Nigeria

The Islamist group Boko Haram (which translates as something like "forbidden Western learning") is burning down schools in Nigeria:

For several days after the attack in early March, students had come to be taught in the open air, under the hardy light-green neem trees in the courtyard, Mr. Kolo said. But he said the government had failed to provide materials, like chalk for a remaining blackboard, so the students had stopped coming.

“They bombed everywhere,” said Aliyu Adamu, a longtime teacher at Abbaganaram. “Everything. All the classes.”

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