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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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| Narrative Scene of Bamba's Family |
| Description: In this narrative scene from his Bel-Air factory mural, Papisto Boy depicts members of the family of Sheikh Amadou Bamba. Papisto Boy enjoys discussing the images with local and expatriate passersby. Of this painting, he explained, “This is the family who have worked for Mouridism. Here we have the Holy Man, Sheikh Amadou Bamba and next to him are his sons. This is the moment when Amadou Bamba was praying on the sea, and his disciple Ibra Fall was saying to Amadou Bamba, ‘The work you do, we know that tomorrow it will be something.’ On the left is Sheikh Falilou Mbacké, the second son of the Holy Man. On the right is Serigne Moustafa Mbacké, the first son who succeeded the Holy Man as Caliph. In the center is the existing Caliph of Touba, Serigne Saliou.” Also seen (from left to right) are the Kaaba of Makkah, the ship of Bamba’s exile to Gabon in 1895, a spirit incorporating the dreadlocks and talisman of a Baye Fall, and a map of Africa in which the Saint it shown calming aggressive jinns in the miracle of Wir-Wir. |
| 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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