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Images of sheets and blackboards tallying the results have circulated on social media, fuelling victory claims among both Biya and Tchiroma's camps.

From Barron's • Oct. 13, 2025

The Michigan artist’s paintings can resemble palimpsests, reused documents that reveal multiple levels of text or imagery, or explicitly evoke partly erased blackboards.

From Washington Post • Oct. 28, 2022

I remember how excited and happy I was even though my school had no chairs, no blackboards, no books — the classroom in ruins from the war.

From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2022

At the 4.16 Memorial Classroom, a museum dedicated to the students, the victims’ classrooms are re-created with desks, blackboards and other furniture from the school.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 8, 2022

Downstairs were lecture halls and classrooms, all of them empty, with clean blackboards and freshly waxed floors.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt