“…Different studies confirm that secondary school students in Africa perform poorly in geography (Anlimachie, 2019;Eze, 2021;Mwesiga, 2017;Opoku, et al, 2020;Yahaya, et al, 2021). By comparing rural and urban schools, some studies found that students from rural schools perform better compared with their counterparts from urban schools (Nidup, 2022;Oyeromi, et al, 2018;) and this contradicted by others revealing that urban schools perform better than rural schools (Opoku-Asare & Siaw, 2015; Sumida & Kawata, 2021;Vishwajeet & Girish, 2018).…”