21. The marabout -talibe relationship in Senegal is essentially a relationship of personal dependence. 22. The marabouts still attract pilgrims from all over southern Tunisia and even from Algeria. 23. Though rare, women can even become spiritual leaders or marabouts within the brotherhood. 24. Below these are the marabouts or clerics, then the cattle owning Fula people. 25. Marabouts arrested for exploiting children for economic purposes were released after their pretrial custody.26. When the marabout came, they ransacked and looted Kaolack and virtually control it. 27. Two years later, he defeated the Dili marabouts that controlled the Middle Atlas. 28. "The marabouts exist," 29. Marabouts normally dress in traditional West African robes and live a simple, ascetic life.30. The significant religious authority is the marabout .
