Based on Dubois’s description, what can you glean about the society within which this Koranic school is situated?
In his work Timbuctoo the Mysterious, Félix Dubois (1896) describes a typical Koranic school: “It is a picture one constantly sees in the Sudan. In the shade before the schoolmaster’s house, a collection of children are gathered together in the coolest corner. Arranged in circles and sitting on their heels, they repeat verses of the […]