OLPC Nigeria

	Federal Republic of Nigeria; #NA
Capital	Abuja
Official languages	English,; Edo,; Efik,; Adamawa Fulfulde,; Hausa,; Idoma,; Igbo,; Central Kanuri,; Yoruba
Area	923,768 km²
Population
- 2005 estimate	128,765,768
- 1999 census	88,992,220
- Density	142/km²
Education
- Literacy (%)	68.0
- Compulsory Years	#NA
- Compulsory Age	#NA
- Pop. in School Age	~#NA
- Pop. in School	~#NA
GDP (PPP) 2005 est.	USD 175 billion
- Per capita	USD 1,400
GDP (nominal) 2005 est.	USD 77 billion
- Per capita	USD 598
HDI (2006)	0.448 (low)
Gini Index (1996-7)	50.6
Time zone	WAT (UTC+1)
Internet TLD	.ng
Calling code	+234
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2007 status: green
green

Languages needed for localization

Q: Which language or languages are needed for localization for use by children in Nigeria please?

A: Nigeria's official language is English along with Edo, Efik, Adamawa Fulfulde, Hausa, Idoma, Igbo, Central Kanuri and Yoruba, but there are more than 250 languages spoken in the country, Ethnologue even lists 510 spoken languages.

Most children learn English, compulsory from primary school onward. Most Muslim children also learn Arabic. They would probably have a better learning experience when taught most topics in their native language. Secondary school is almost exclusively taught in English. Yoruba is the local language most used in schools in the south west from primary to secondary school , but the language of instruction still remains English.

There are already localization efforts in Nigeria's major languages, Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa. These languages use the African Reference Alphabet, which is covered by Unicode but requiring support for composed characters with diacritics (at both input and display level). More information about localization can be found at the PanAfrLoc Wiki. According to L'aménagement linguistique dans le monde, a third of the children between 12 and 17 attend school.

Localization experience

The program Application Program: Test of ability with arithmetic may or may not become produced. The idea is to localize the program into many languages. There are already (2006-05-29) strings of text for English, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish.

See OLPC Nigeria/Languages for data and information on the languages used in Nigeria and required for the localization effort.

Nigeria 2007

School Galadima, Abuja

The XO is in use at the Galadima School. Read about the trial here.

2007-02-12 - XOs in operation: Observations from Nigeria

XOs @ Alteq's (OLPC4Nigeria) Engineering Unit

One of our XOs (among the first 40 units to arrive in Nigeria) nicknamed alteq eng 1 is displaying some anomalous behavior: Whenever its browser and RSS viewer (Penguin TV) are launched, their icons slowly/gently "flash" in the "circle of running applications". Whenever the flashing Penguin TV icon or Browser icon is clicked on, they each disappear.
The MeshNets don't always work as expected; sometimes, some of the XOs indicate that their MeshNets are active...yet they don't see one another...particularly those XOs that have been "tagged" as "friends". I usually solve this by restarting.
When an application or more is shared on the MeshNet, another XO that clicks on the shared application (in the neighborhood "radar") will have its respective application launched but won't have a view of the content from the host XO that shared its application. For instance, if XO "Alpha" is viewing the web page http://uk.360.yahoo.com/wingless_pilot and it shares its browser, XO "Beta" can see "Alpha's" shared browser on the neighborhood radar and click on it. Whenever this is done on the XOs at Alteq (OLPC4Nigeria), "Beta" and any other XO that clicks on "Alpha's" shared browser will end up having their respective browsers going to their default URLs instead of the page that XO "Alpha" is viewing (http://uk.360.yahoo.com/wingless_pilot).