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Senegal’s street children turn trauma into art in Africa’s biggest exhibition

Dakar exhibition

Thomson Reuters Foundation Young boys who were forced to beg on the streets for Islamic teachers have turned their suffering into art, as they join more than 1,000 artists showing their work at Africa’s biggest and oldest biennale art exhibition in Senegal this month. Some 50,000 child beggars known as talibe live in religious schools […]