Kheraba Traoré

Entrusted by their families, often poor and rural, to Koranic schools (Daaras) to receive a religious education, the talibé children portrayed by Kheraba are most often boys aged between 4 -15 years. To pay for their education, the children are expected to perform domestic tasks. They are most often forced to beg and suffer many abuses which humanitarian organizations regularly denounce. Although the Senegalese government pledged in 2016 to put an end to this modern slavery, the global economic crisis and the Covid 19 pandemic has slowed down the enforcement of laws punishing this type of child trafficking.

@when the viewer takes a moment to pause and reflect : each of his work is a plea for tolerance and a statement against violence against children. Kheraba’s themes are recurrent : First and foremost children , their rights to the 10 UN pillars (education, protection …etc.) signed by all states in 1989 except the US.