Illiteracy a form of social death
In his document on the Church in Africa, Pope Benedict XVI addresses the educational crisis on the continent, calling high illiteracy rates “a scourge on par with that of pandemics.”
“True, it does not kill directly, but it contributes actively to the marginalisation of the person - which is a form of social death - and it blocks access to knowledge,” the Pope says in Africae Munus (The Co...