As schools reopen in Africa, relief is matched by anxiety

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — One cash-strapped parent asked to pay her child’s school tuition fees with bags of the rice she grows, leading headmaster Mike Ssekaggo to request a sample before he would agree. Eventually he did. Many other parents in African countries, unable to pay in cash or kind, say their children will have to miss the new term as classes resume after months of delay caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Ssekaggo, headmaster of Wampeewo…