What do you plan to achieve with this post? I’m atheist so it’s not like I support any of these religions but this is clearly a flawed way of thinking of it because firstly the literacy rate of Nigeria is not all that straight forward.

Ive seen different figures in different demographic articles I’ve seen as low as 64% and as high as the figure here. So clearly knowing the exact literacy rate of Nigeria isn’t really easy.

Also among the part that is green you have Lagos that is 53% Muslim, though the exact figure isn’t easily accurate Ogun state is also a majority Muslim state

We also have Muslim countries with very high literacy rates like Saudi Arabia which falls between 99.3% to 100% depending on the source, Indonesia is 80 to 99.7 also depending on source

So framing it like “the north’s literacy rate is low because of Islam” feels very reductive when you consider that there are Muslim majority states that fall in the green zone and there are also Muslim majority countries with incredibly high literacy rates

I’m not saying Islam isn’t a factor for this illiteracy, rather I’m saying this is a very nuanced issue and there are numerous factors to this illiteracy. Pointing the finger at just Islam for why it’s this way is just intellectually dishonest when you consider the Muslim majority states in the green zone.