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Rihanna: Growing up in Barbados, school was a grind. But I was lucky

We must fight for the quarter of a billion young people still denied an education by conflict, poverty, sexism and bad policy
Pupils at a primary school in Pikine, on the outskirts of Dakar, Senegal, ahead of the Global Partnership for Education conference. Photograph: Seyllou/AFP/Getty Images

Education is a lifelong journey. We never know everything, but we constantly evolve as we learn more about our communities, this ever-changing world and ourselves.

I’m not ashamed to say I’m still learning. I’ve grown tremendously as an individual through my formal education as well as the global education I have received by travelling the world through music.

The lack of access to education for children around the world is a massive problem, but that does not mean we should throw up our hands in despair

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