Education and Empowered Citizenship in Mali

Explores the connections between access to education and political engagement in Mali.

Primary school enrollment has nearly tripled in Mali since 1991, when the country made its first transition to multiparty democracy. Jaimie Bleck explores the effect of this expanded access to education by analyzing the relationship between parents’ and students’ respective experiences with schooling and their current participation in politics.

In a nation characterized both by the declining quality of pub...