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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Glass Painting of the Saint on a Horse
Description: The current dean of Senegalese glass painting is Mor Gueye, an ardent Baye Fall who documents Mouride history. Mor Gueye considers himself to be an historian and recounts the trials and deeds of Amadou Bamba through his paintings of the Saint. Of this painting he states, The Saint received a letter from God in the form of a triangle, and it was delivered by the Angel Gabriel. After reading the letter, the colonials came to arrest him. This was in Djawol (Mor Gueye).
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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