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Really enjoying this intellectual history of West Africa. Islam has been flourishing there ever since it arrived in the region. I also love learning about the educational methods there and how it differed and responded to colonialism.

“Thus, after I enrolled in the Clemenceau School in 1961, I had to commit to two systems of education.The French school was important because it led to the award of a degree and recognition, and the Qur’anic school because it shaped its students’ sense of belonging to a Muslim personality. Like my siblings, I pursued Islamic and Western education simultaneously.”