Report from Guinea: where are the textbooks?

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French textbook for primary level prohibited for sale, sold in a bookstore in Conakry (Guinea).

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By: Charlie Dupiot Follow |

Emmanuelle Bastide

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They are lacking in classrooms, from elementary to secondary.

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We need a sufficient number of textbooks, if possible published in Guinea,

" claim several teachers in public schools in Conakry, where there may be only one textbook for 4 students, or even no textbook at all in certain disciplines. 

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Problems of exhausted stocks, unexplained disappearances, textbooks designed by international and non-local publishing houses, content questioned ... The school book is, as in many West African countries, a crucial issue for the Guinean education system. .

The blackboard then becomes the only learning tool, with the risk for the pupils of memorizing errors copied out in their own notebooks.  

Report by 

Charlie Dupiot

 in schools, one public, the other private, in Conakry, with teachers, students, librarians, publishers, the National Institute for Research and Educational Action - in charge of management of school books - and the Guinean Minister of National Education and Literacy, Alpha Amadou Bano Barry.

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