The 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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Histoire de l'Ancien Etat musulman du Fouta Djallon
Description: From the collection of Boubacar Barry. These works were digitized by the West African Research Center in Dakar, Senegal.
Publication Date: April 10, 1984
AODL Contributing Partner: Boubacar Barry
Copyright: Collection Boubacar Barry
Author: Barry, El Hadji Bassia, Barry, Oumou Kesso
Interviewer: Interviewer Unknown

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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