Opinion: COVID-19: A Golden Opportunity To End the Almajiri Culture, By Zainab Suleiman Okino
No one worthy of being called a parent should care less about what his or her child eats, his or her personal safety or what the future holds for him or her.
It cannot be about Islamic education alone. The best of Islamic scholars don’t necessarily come from the almajiri culture, because no child raised under the harsh and vulnerable conditions that almajiri live in, can be his or her best in school, whether Islamic or Western. And it cannot be about moral upbringing, because there is no documented evidence of any former almajiri cleansing the society of moral decadence, criminal activities or making significant changes to our way of life in Nigeria. No child psychologist will tell you that a child facing starvation and stigmatisation as almajiri will grow up with piety, wisdom or knowledge even.
In the past, there were people who graduated from almajiri schools to Western education and became successful in their chosen endeavours. That was when the society was cohesive and not socially stratified. Today the almajiri system is for the abandoned and the underprivileged only, as values associated with such form of learning have since been eroded.
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