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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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| Papisto Boy Standing in Front of his Mural of Bob Marley |
| Description: Papisto Boy standing in front of his portrait of Bob Marley in the Bel-Air factory mural. Papisto feels that Marley is a “messenger” of Amadou Bamba whose inspiration “passed through music,” and the artist’s attention borders on a reverence witnessed among many Mourides. Men devoted to Lamp Fall are called Baye Falls, and their dreadlocks are an obvious point of convergence with images of Rastafarians. Indeed, tourists often mistake Baye Falls for Rastas. In this portrait entitled “The Fruit of the Year 2000,” Marley’s face is framed by the shape of a mango and conveys millenarian hope that the future will be as blessedly bounteous as the words emerging from the singer’s lips, that turn into five-franc coins. |
| 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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