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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The Only Known Photograph of Sheikh Ibra Fall
Description: The only known photograph of Sheikh Ibra Fall was published by Paul Marty in 1917, in the same volume in which the 1913 photograph of Amadou Bamba appears. Mourides understand the holy man’s dark robe to signify his dedication to hard physical labor in the name of the Saint. This lithograph copies the original photograph, and is used in devotions.
Publication Date: January 1, 1917
AODL Contributing Partner: Passport to Paradise
Copyright:
Author: Marty, Paul
Interviewer: Interviewer Unknown

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