GOVERNMENTS must be held accountable for the slow progress of African countries on global education goals, since underperforming schools and teachers are usually victims of a dysfunctional system, the United Nation’s (UN) cultural agency Unesco said last week.
Sub-Saharan Africa falls behind other parts of the world by most education standards, with one in four young people unable to read and 33 million children out of primary school, more than half of all those in the world.
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