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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Mural of Che Guevara |
Description: Papisto Boy paints many portraits in his Belaire factory mural, but Che Guevara and Bob Marley appear more often than any of his other heroes. “Che was a great leader. Art has no boundaries so he, too, must be on this wall. This wall is for the whole world, and Che is not the only one here. There are many prominent figures from America. I have painted a fish over his forehead because Che is like a swordfish – strong, athletic, and agile.” |
Publication Date: January 1, 1999 |
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: Dakar, No first name given, Roberts, Allan F., Roberts, Mary Nooter |
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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