By Comrade Abubakar Ismail Kankara The historical educational system popularly known as “Makarantar Allo” and the students have been categorize and named “Almajirai” has a synonymous background and an analog formation status which has installed a compounded believe that sees the system as the only doctrine of acquiring knowledge. Meanwhile, the intricacy of modern education…
Jamil Mabai’s work cataloging the lives of Nigeria’s abandoned children, Almajiri, as part of the AlmajiriProject, is beautifully heart-wrenching. As I spend time looking through the images, each tells a unique story. Every picture tells a bit more about the life of about 10 million abandoned children of Nigeria’s north. Today I was absorbed in the image of a little boy…
Almajiri Photo book project by Jamil Mabai @jaymb000
Voice Of America’s Chika Oduah gives publicity to the cause: “”I can’t take care of them,” Umar Mohammed said. “They should even be the one taking care of me because I am an elder man. There is no organization that is helping us, so we have to allow them to beg. It has been there…
Al Muhajirun He was supposed to be a traveller A traveller in search of help In search of knowledge Knowledge to fill his emptiness Empty stomach and smelly skin Skin so dirty he lacks tahara He lacks everything, even what he came for He came for knowledge he never got Never got food Never got…
The first time we organized an Eid Sallah party for Almajiris, we did not know how gratifying it would feel. Since then we have continued, thanks to God, to host Almajiris to bigger and smaller Eid parties. Do you know that many of these abandoned boys do not have any food to break their fast…
The ENDS socio-political non governmental organization hosted a Sallah Eid Kabir party for about 100 Almajiri children in Nasarawa state, Nigeria Friday. A ram was killed and cooked for the wanderer kids and food and drink served to them at three different ‘schools.’ Mohammed Sabo Keana, coordinating the project observed that otherwise the children had no festive…
by Peregrino Brimah You probably thought I misspelled or you misread. Sadly, that is the title. Location: Borno Temperature: 40C/104F degrees scorching hot days and 12C/54F freezing cold nights. Time: 2am approximately, some day in 2009 Two 9 year old almajiri boys were in bed; well, on the floor actually, inside or beside a…
