Boko Koran in Nigeria

In the shadow of Boko Haram, in the country where that group kidnapped almost 300 schoolgirls, the Koranic schools of the north are beginning to consider the benefits of adding some elements of a more modern education to the curriculum. "The world is changing," declares Sufi cleric Dahiru Bauchi, who oversees about 150 schools. "It's like the right and left hand: the right hand is the Islamic education, the elegant hand, and the left hand does the everyday work." Just like in many other countries, though, while the government talks up the importance of such schools ~ even calling them "laboratories of peace" ~ it doesn't always come through with the necessary funding: http://harpers.org/blog/2014/07/the-many-faces-of-boko/