Limited choices for women in Nigeria’s north
Cultural traditions and economic challenges push women away from schools and into early marriages.
Published On 24 May 2014
Boko Haram’s attacks on schools in Nigeria have taken a toll on education.
But even before the recent violence and last month’s kidnapping of more than 270 women and girls from a school, women in the largely impoverished north did not have many choices.
Al Jazeera’s Rawya Rageh reports from Maiduguri in Borno state.