Lamentations after self-immolation in Northern Nigeria

A uniquely Northern Nigerian Muslim culture, which traditionally holds education in contemptuous suspicion as a Western Judeo-Christian expansionist ploy, has continuously relegated the region to the abyss of socio-economic dysfunction. In combination with a distorted but widely practiced form of Sufism, which holds poverty as virtue and material prosperity as vice, the entrenched Muslim culture of abhorrence for education is responsible for the social menace of poverty-stricken, mostly homeless, children, commonly known as AlmaJiri, roaming the streets of northern Nigeria in their millions.
 
Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III
 
A region that formed part of the greater ...