Sani directing children to tidy up a courtyard at the small school where he is the principal, in Kano, Nigeria. — ©2024 The New York Times Company
FIVE young sisters and their brother crowded around a small television in their modest cement house, a giggling pile of limbs and abandoned homework.
Like many other families across northern Nigeria, the Sani family had been waiting all week for Thursday night to watch the latest episode of their favourite show, Gidan Badamasi.
