Kosovo’s house schools
In the 1990s a generation of Albanians got their education crammed into private homes
Witness History · BBC World Service
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Show Notes
In 1990s Kosovo, a generation of Albanians received their education crammed into thousands of private homes.
When Slobodan Milosevic’s Serb nationalist regime forcibly evicted them from schools and universities, Kosovan Albanians responded with improvised house schools in their apartments, attics and cellars.
The spontaneous reaction to their ethnic exclusion quickly evolved into a nationwide education system that would endure for the best part of a decade.
Linda Gusia, a pupil in the house schools, and university professor Drita Halimi speak to Jack Butcher. A Whistledown production for BBC World Service.
(Photo: A Kosovan house school. Credit: Shyqeri Obërtinca)