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[edit] Cleanup goals

This needs some major editing, but I think there are parts which can be saved. Street kids in Dakar are known as Talibes, and it's an outgrowth of traditional religious leaders and students living by alms. But the word (it's just Arabic for Students) means everything from Madrassa students, to adult followers of specific teachers, sects, to students (religious and secular) to the Taliban in central asia. So this needs to be re-written as West African (especially Dakar/Bamako) specific usage, and be about BOTH religious students, and street kids, both where they intersect and where they do not. There are plenty of religious students (or followers of Marabouts) who are not children and/or do not beg. As there are plenty of homeless Dakar kids who are not students.

Also, this article was written by some Christian missionary who seems to want to see all (Muslim) religious teachers as exploiters. Not only non-encyclopedic but also just wrong.T L Miles (talk) 18:36, 11 January 2008 (UTC)