SENEGAL: Primary schools grapple with digital technology - Reuters

In the poor fishing neighbourhood of Guele Tapee in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, a small school sits wedged between a run-down cemetery and a craft market. Piles of rubbish line a sandy alleyway that leads to the school's front gate. The school walls are stained; desks are cracked and dusty. Yet among the dirt and disorder of one classroom, six shiny flat-screen computers line one side. They are seemingly out of place. At one computer ten-year-old Amadou Diallo is fighting off his classmates to be the one to turn it on.

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