When Nelly Chepchumba returned to school this week, she found charred walls where her classroom used to be and two corpses half-buried in the garden. A place of learning had been consumed in the explosion of violence that followed a disputed presidential election in Kenya.
Thirteen-year-old Nelly poked through the grounds for old uniforms and missing shoes. She stepped over ripped-up spelling books. Old attendance sheets and a blackboard with the message "Don't hesitate to discipline children. A good spanking won't kill them!" served as reminders of the students who used to gather.
"I'm jealous of other children who get to return to their …
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