The Traditional Almajiri Education System
6.1. Why Almajirci? Invisible Facts The question why Almajirci with respect to Traditional Almajiri Education System is very necessary giving its present state. Although Almajiri system was built upon the philosophy of acquiring, teaching and spreading Islamic education, Islamic religion and productive citizenry. Today, it has lost those glories and wander viciously along undetermined route. Abdulkadir, (2003) argued that, the woes of the Traditional Almajiri System were inflicted by the British colonialists and adoption of indirect rule. However, our neglect to the system many years after they left compounded on its deterioration today. Though the conquest and subsequent suppressive policies prior to independence affected the system
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As a result of ignorance, lusts and selfish interests, some people tend to abuse and mishandle their legitimate freedom of multiple marriage. They do not really go beyond the threshold of the maximum number of wives accepted in Islam, rather they divorce as many wives as they can replacing them with others. Within few years they generate large number of children within the family that has been disintegrated, with many young children whose mothers have been divorced and therefore left with nobody to provide them with motherly warmth, love and care. It becomes difficult for the father to take care of the young children, instead, he would send them to towns and cities behind the veil of educating them.
6.1.3. Corporate Deception The high levels of tolerance for Almajiri practice has made it to become a norm in our society, such that its numerous disadvantages are not worthy of being discussed or addressed by elites and leaders at various levels. Successful northern elites and leaders did not envisage that the neglect of these Almajiri children could and would become a menace and a thing of national disgrace in the future (Fowoyo, 2013). Elites in cities kept quite without raising their voice audibly to the ears of leaders as much as they do when their rights or privileges or those of their friends and family are denied. This is because they benefit …show more content…
These being the reality, the teachers in Traditional Almajiri schools (Mallam) will resist and fight to the last drop of their blood to prevent any attempt to stop the practice of Almajirci, but will pray for the sustained influx of pupils to their schools.
6.1.5. Religious Dogma Almajirci may have lingered because some Muslims believed that the system is the only means through which Islamic knowledge/education can be obtained. They would hinge on the assertion that, since many renown Islamic scholars and companions of the Noble Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W.) acquired and spread their vast and blessed knowledge through a similar system (Hijra), any attempt to modernise the system is tantamount to fight against Islam established Islamic
As a result of ignorance, lusts and selfish interests, some people tend to abuse and mishandle their legitimate freedom of multiple marriage. They do not really go beyond the threshold of the maximum number of wives accepted in Islam, rather they divorce as many wives as they can replacing them with others. Within few years they generate large number of children within the family that has been disintegrated, with many young children whose mothers have been divorced and therefore left with nobody to provide them with motherly warmth, love and care. It becomes difficult for the father to take care of the young children, instead, he would send them to towns and cities behind the veil of educating them.
6.1.3. Corporate Deception The high levels of tolerance for Almajiri practice has made it to become a norm in our society, such that its numerous disadvantages are not worthy of being discussed or addressed by elites and leaders at various levels. Successful northern elites and leaders did not envisage that the neglect of these Almajiri children could and would become a menace and a thing of national disgrace in the future (Fowoyo, 2013). Elites in cities kept quite without raising their voice audibly to the ears of leaders as much as they do when their rights or privileges or those of their friends and family are denied. This is because they benefit …show more content…
These being the reality, the teachers in Traditional Almajiri schools (Mallam) will resist and fight to the last drop of their blood to prevent any attempt to stop the practice of Almajirci, but will pray for the sustained influx of pupils to their schools.
6.1.5. Religious Dogma Almajirci may have lingered because some Muslims believed that the system is the only means through which Islamic knowledge/education can be obtained. They would hinge on the assertion that, since many renown Islamic scholars and companions of the Noble Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W.) acquired and spread their vast and blessed knowledge through a similar system (Hijra), any attempt to modernise the system is tantamount to fight against Islam established Islamic