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A School for Children of the Twenty First Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Marco Rossi-Doria
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‘My name is Ephraïm Naana, I have already told you on one of these many occasions when you have come here before closing time to speak about my school. In my village, since you ask me, there are not all the things which are to be found on the market here, there are only those which grow there: mangoes, potatoes, maize, bananas, papayas. And my primary school teacher told me that in other places there might be even fewer things; he said that in the market in Khartoum, in Sudan, the nation is vast but on the stalls there are only onions and white and red beans; and even though they were nicely arranged in piles, they were still only white beans, red beans and onions; and then he said that the world was big and that the hunger we experienced was not the worst of famines.

Type
Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 48 , Issue 189 , March 2000 , pp. 83 - 100
Copyright
Copyright © ICPHS 2000

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Notes

1. The author, a teacher at the Italian public school in Nairobi in 1988, often had conversations with a young African schoolboy who was thirteen years old, and with his school friends, about their life and school. This article is inspired by the book, Marco Rossi-Doria (1999), Di mestiere faccio il maestro (Naples: Ancora Editore).

2. On this point, see Rossi-Doria (1999), pp. 51 ff.

3. For estimates for Italy, see Rossi-Doria (1999), pp. 35-39.

4. Fantacalcio: a ‘virtual' game in the course of which each participant forms their own team by selecting (within the limits of a budget decided in advance) footballers playing in the Italian championship. The total number of points attributed to each player by the sports daily, La gazetta dello sport, match by match, determines who wins. (Italian translator's note)