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Article: NIGERIA-WOMEN: WHEN BOOKS AND PENS TAKE ON A NEW MEANING
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
- Article date:
- August 12, 1995
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Toye Olori
Inter Press Service English News Wire
08-12-1995
AKURE, Nigeria, Aug. 11 (IPS) -- For the group of women who
recently graduated from a literacy class in this southwest Nigerian
town, finally being able to read and write means no longer having
to be dependent on the goodwill of others.
"I now write and read my letters by myself," says Esther
Ogunmola. "I don't have to beg my neighbors' children to help me
when I want to write my children who live in the cities," added the
52-year-old trader.
For Janet Adu, who, like Ogunmola, was recently awarded a
certificate of literary proficiency on graduating from a one-year
adult education program here, it is also the beginning of a new
era, one ...