o:id
	5042
url
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/5042
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	Journal article
o:resource_class
	bibo:AcademicArticle
dcterms:title
	The Quranic school farm and child labour in Upper Volta
dcterms:publisher
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/25007
dcterms:date
	1984
dcterms:type
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8475
dcterms:identifier
	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113524368 Q113524368
	iwac-reference-0000061
dcterms:language
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8322
dcterms:abstract
	On his way back from his first travels to the interior of the Gambia, Mungo Park describes a ‘schoolmaster' who entertained him in the Mandingo country while his principal host was on a slave purchasing expedition. The school of this master consisted of seventeen boys who ‘always had their lessons by the light of a large fire before daybreak and again late in the evening' and who ‘were employed in planting corn, bringing firewood, and in other servile offices, through the day' (Park, 1799: 313–14). Such rural institutions combining elementary Islamic education and farm production must then have existed in the coastal areas of West Africa for at least two centuries, and spread to other parts of Africa as a result of Islamic expansion. They were agents of proselytization and further Islamization. Consequently Quranic schools are often discussed primarily in their relation to Islamic history. In the present day, however, they continue in some areas as viable alternatives to western-style schools and as units of agricultural production. This paper, which stems from research I conducted in the southern part of central Upper Volta on household farms and wealth stratification, underscores the dual function of these farm schools.
dcterms:spatial
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/546
bibo:authorList
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/1277
bibo:doi
	https://doi.org/10.2307/1159911 10.2307/1159911
bibo:issue
	2
bibo:pageEnd
	87
bibo:pageStart
	71
bibo:volume
	54

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