BENIN EDUCATION MINISTER MAKES STOP AT HENNINGER.(Local)

From: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) | Date: September 30, 2005 | Copyright information

Byline: Maureen Nolan Staff writer

It wasn't Regents biology, but students at Henninger High School got a lesson when a government minister from the Republic of Benin, plus entourage, filed into their classroom Thursday morning.

For starters, the students got a chance to meet the impeccably attired, multilingual, world-traveling guests themselves. They were a textbook come alive.

Chief among them was Rafiatou Karimou, minister of primary and secondary education, who holds a Cabinet-level position in the West African democracy. She became the government's first female ...

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