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3 Key Barriers In The Growth Of Education In Africa

African countries fall back on several parameters and one such big parameter is education. After careful researchers and studies following three things pose serious concerns for the education system and calls to get grants for building schools in Africa : 1.Gender Differences Gender differences in primary education is higher than in secondary education in Africa. Females are increasingly dropping out than their male peers in secondary school due to early marriages, cost of continuing education and gender-based violence in secondary schools. Gender inequality can be witnessed even in the textbooks used in schools that are written from male perspectives and ignore many female leaders and perspectives in history. 2.Teachers Thousands of Zimbabwean teachers have gone on strikes, joined teacher unions and left the profession in recent years over low salaries, poor working conditions, political victimization and violence. Thousands of teachers across Africa have protested, left pub