Gabon: Cost of back-to-school items weighs on parents

“Back then, you could get a 200-page booklet for 500 francs (80 cents). But these days it’s gone up a lot. Well, for us it’s… It’s too high actually. It’s too expensive to learn. So it’s complicated. Because with 30,000 ($49 , editor’s note) you can only have 3 or 4 notebooks….”Source: Africanews

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