Education In Somalia Essay

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Education in Somalia: History, destruction, and calls for reconstruction
Ali A. Abdi

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To cite this Article Abdi, Ali A.(1998) 'Education in Somalia: History, destruction, and calls for reconstruction',

Comparative Education, 34: 3, 327 — 340 To link to this Article: DOI: 10.1080/03050069828171 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03050069828171

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Education in Som alia: history, destruction, and calls for reconstruction
ALI A. ABDI
In pre-colonial traditional Somalia, education was dispensed through inform al systems of com munal interaction. W ith the arrival of...