Witness: Witness Archive 2015

Only a fraction of Somalia's population could read or write in the early 1970s. So the military government launched a hugely ambitious literacy campaign. What was unusual was that many of the teachers were schoolchildren - sent into the countryside to teach adults. Hear from one of those teachers - Abdirahman Abtidon - who was 14 at the time. (Photo: Literacy class in 1974.)