Android is designed to ensure the children do not stray too far away from the vision (and influence) of the Mountain View based company, and while handset manufacturers can takethe glory and the sales figures, a lot of their hard work passes back up the feudalistic food chain to Google.
Most of the pupils - known as "talibe" in the local language, Wolof - end up begging on the streets for money and food which they have to takeback to their teachers, our correspondent adds.
But in many boomtowns, Latinos have poured in to take up the basic jobs in construction, food and distribution that cities need to back up their growth.