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    Follow Up: Did The Computerless Computer Teacher Ever Get A Computer?

    The story of the middle school teacher without a computer prompted an outpouring of support. But did he get any laptops?
    by Malaka Gharib Mar 17, 2018 2 minutes
    Owura Kwadwo Hottish illustrates a window of Microsoft Word using colored chalk on a blackboard for his students at the Betenase M/A Junior High School in Kumasi, Ghana.

    He was the computer teacher without a computer.

    Then his story went viral — and his life (and classroom) changed.

    On March 1, about Owura Kwadwo Hottish, 33, who painstakingly drew a computer screen on a chalkboard to teach his computerless middle school students in Kumasi, Ghana,

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