Primary school pupils in Kaduna, Nigeria. Nigeria has approximately 400 languages and an education policy that allows for trilingual education in the mother tongue, a national language and English. In practice, only the national languages - Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo - have widespread use at the primary level along with English. Teaching materials are being developed in more languages, however, and at secondary level the national languages will soon be taught differently depending on whether students speak them at home or as a second language. © Betty Press/Panos Pictures

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