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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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| Glass Painting Stands Where Images of the Saint are Purchased |
| Description: Glass painting stands can be found throughout urban Dakar, where the images are purchased primarily by tourists but also by Senegalese. While these colorful displays include comic book depictions and other generic tourist themes, such as beautiful Senegalese women, birds, and brightly painted car rapides, they almost always also carry several images of Sheikh Amadou Bamba, Sheikh Ibra Fall, and other leaders of the Mourides and other Senegalese Sufi movements. |
| Publication Date: January 1, 2001 |
| 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: Brodhead, Lynne K. |
| 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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