Contemporary Issues, first prize winner, stories. “Talibes, Modern-day Slaves.” Abdoulaye, 15, is a talibe imprisoned in a room with security bars to keep him from running away, on May 18, 2015. The series portrays the plight of Talibes, boys who live at Islamic schools known as Daaras in Senegal. Under the pretext of receiving a Quranic education, they are forced to beg in the streets while their religious guardians, or Marabout, collect their daily earnings. They often live in squalor and are abused and beaten.