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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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| Mural of Malcom X |
| Description: Here Papisto Boy portrays a deeply reflective Malcolm X. A bleeding Africa is seared with the poem, “I heard a cry, I heard a cry coming from a far off land, ‘Save my child!” Archangel Gabriel (in the form of a dove) brings a letter from God to Malcolm X, and a red rose (?) suggests the artist’s devotion to the man’s messages of dignity. Just visible to the right are the upraised fist of Nelson Mandela and a black panther (see fig. 3.11). To the left of Malcolm X (not seen in this image) are details of one of the curving staircases and the “Door of No Return” of the Slave House of Gorée Island. |
| 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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