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Current Feed ContentSENEGAL: Why the`talibe’ problem won’t go awayEmpty cans used for begging line the entrance of a house in the overcrowded neighbourhood of Grand Yoff in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, where a `marabout’ [Koranic teacher] and 10 boys rent two mosquito-infested rooms. The boys sleep together on the concrete floor. Each morning they get up, take the empty cans and head onto the street to beg for breakfast. These boys are `talibes’, followers of a `marabout’, to whom they were entrusted by their families to learn the Koran. But their... |
