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a Senegalese Sufi movement centered upon the life and teachings of
a local saint named Sheikh Amadou Bamba.
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Mural of The Late Thomas Sankara |
Description: The late Thomas Sankara is depicted in this detail from the Bel-Air factory mural of Papisto Boy. “This is the President of Burkina Faso, Thomas Sankara. He, too, was a great man. He was a revolutionary, and there is a book about him.” When Thomas Sankara seized the presidency of the Republic of Upper Volta, he Africanized his country as Burkina Faso, a name suggesting renewed dignity and self-reliance. Sankara’s progressive politics put him at odds with many, and he was assassinated in a counter coup. The portrait of Sankara is painted over a text about the travails of Senegalese who grow up in foreign countries. For his mural, Papisto writes, “You’re always among us, Sankara.” Below this a haiku-like poem reads, “A stag belled in the moonlight and shed hot tears.” |
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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