Assessment Of Almajiri System Of Education; It’s Implication For Child, Family And National Development In Zaria Local Government Area Of Kaduna State.

CHAPTER ONE 1.1    BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY   “Almajiri” is a hausa word meaning immigrant children in search of search of Qur’anic education. The children are sent out early in life to seek Islamic knowledge outside their environment. They are placed under Islamic teachers known simply as ‘mallam’ under whom they are supposed to learn the rudiments of the religion. Khalid (2000), describes almajiranci as seasonal migration of school age male children from rural to urban areas in northern Nigeria in search of Qur’anic education. In this contemporary era, Almajiranci has degenerated to the exte…