The book expensively capture the almajiri phenomenon existing in the northern area of Nigeria the dangers the male teens who engage in It are exposed to while begging on the street the conflict between Islamic and western education and it's attendan Boko Haram doctrinaires who are now a menace it's also represent Umar hopes and aspiration to be liberated through Western education as an almajiri boys who survives on the food beg on the street of dankura