The Qur'anic school pupils begin their day with the early morning prayers between 5 a.m. and 6 a.m. Then they start reciting and memorising the Qur'an till 10 a.m. They are free till the late afternoon prayer at 5 p.m. and then they begin to recite again. This is followed by more prayers and then recitation till late in the evening. I visited one of the schools on the outskirts of Kaduna in northern Nigeria late one evening. There were several dozen boys, some who looked as young as 5, sitting or standing in a courtyard.

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