In 2016, in a classroom in the hilly city of Mwanza, in northwestern Tanzania, a group of about 20 girls took turns demonstrating to me how their teachers hit them using canes. The secondary school students recounted daily abuse, indicating which parts of their bodies their teachers struck for  many reasons such as  arriving a few minutes late, making noise or speaking to a classmate, or not answering a question  correctly. Or simply for no apparent reason.
I noticed some girls had fresh bruises on their calves or other parts of their legs. One girl told me her teacher repeatedly hit her so hard in the buttocks that the cloth she was using to contain period blood fell to the floor. Her peers laughed at her. She felt vulnerable and humiliated.

In August, Tanzania’s government banned teachers in the lower grades of primary school from entering classrooms with canes.

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