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Passport to Paradise gallery highlights the bold, visual images found
all over Dakar by focusing upon the urban visual culture of the Mourides,
a Senegalese Sufi movement centered upon the life and teachings of
a local saint named Sheikh Amadou Bamba.
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| Mural on Exterior Factory Wall |
| Description: Mouride artist Pape Mamadou Samb (better known as “Papisto Boy”) paints on exterior factory walls in Bel-Air, an industrial neighborhood of the port of Dakar. Through his devotional works, Papisto hopes to educate people about Amadou Bamba. In so doing, he brings the world to Bel-Air, for he calls upon a panoply of global freedom fighters, heroes of resistance, revolutionaries, and “messengers” of the Saint. This narrative detail from the Bel-Air mural depicts Sheikhs Ibra Fall and Amadou Bamba. As Papisto explains, “To start my paintings, my murals, I begin with Sheikh Ibra Fall. He is the secretary, the closest friend of Sheikh Amadou Bamba, the great Holy Man. Just like the bird which brings him the message from Allah, it is saying that you [Lamp Fall] will stay with Amadou Bamba, and you will work with and for Amadou Bamba. When he was not saying his prayers, his work was his prayer.” |
| Publication Date: Publication Date Unknown |
| AODL Contributing Partner: Passport to Paradise |
| Copyright: Images and text courtesy of the Fowler Museum of Cultural History, and Drs. Mary Nooter Roberts (Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Fowler) and Allen F. Roberts (Professor, UCLA Department of World Arts & Cultures and Director, James S. Coleman African Studies Center). |
| Author: Author Unknown |
| Interviewer: Interviewer Unknown |
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Sampling
from L'Institut Fondemental d'Afrique Noire (IFAN)
Phil Curtin Collection
Collection Boubacar Barry
Collection Charles Becker: Recherches et documents sur
le Sida
Photographs from “Passport to Paradise’:
Sufi Arts of Senegal and Beyond
Mosques of Bondoukou
Futa
Toro, Senegal and Mauritania
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