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Senegal's primary schools grapple with digital technology

In the poor fishing neighbourhood of Medina in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, a small school sits wedged between a run-down cemetery and a craft market. Piles of rubbish line a sandy alleyway that leads to the school's front gate. The school walls are stained; desks are cracked and dusty.

23 Jul 2007

Dakar - Yet among the dirt and disorder of one classroom, six shiny flat-screen computers line one side. They are seemingly out of place.

At one computer 10-year-old Amadou Diallo is fighting off his classmates to be the one to turn it on.

Amadou is in grade 4, and had never used a computer until 10 appeared in his elementary school library. Now, he uses a computer five hours a week.

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