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Having come under several decades of British colonialism, the East African countries including Kenya have all inherited the educational system that maintains a distinction between schools designed for religious training and those for the material world. But under the impact of globalization, Muslim women educationists in this region are rethinking the question of modernity in terms of creative alternative educational set-ups.
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Alidou, O. (2014). Shaping Muslim Curriculum in Kenya. In: Babaci-Wilhite, Z. (eds) Giving Space to African Voices. Comparative and International Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-734-6_4
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