Classrooms without walls were one result of Tanzanian president Julius Nyereye's
"Education for Self-Reliance" initiative, which brought all children, not just the elite,
into the schools.

In adult literacy classes in a village on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro. Literacy, Semali argues, cannot be limited to reading and writing. True literacy, he says, is a people's "ability to construct knowledge, or ways of knowing, specific to their environment."

Mount Kilimanjaro, always in the background in Semali's village of Chaggaland.