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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Announcement of the Magal |
Description: Announcement of the Magal (pilgrimage) to the tomb of Mame Diarra Bousso (the mother of Sheikh Amadou Bamba) in the rural town of Porokhane. A model of the tomb is shown on the left of the folded announcement, while Mame Diarra is seen stalwartly holding up the fence in reference to a famous story of her brave loyalty to her husband, in an image on the right that is lifted from an unsigned wall painting on the outer wall of the Éts. Porokhane shop of Madame Aida Ndiaye Baba Lô.
The tomb of Sokhna Maïmouna Mbacké, youngest and last surviving daughter of Amadou Bamba, is under construction in the holy city of Touba shortly after her death in 1999. Lying just adjacent to the Great Mosque where her father lies in rest, the tomb receives its own pilgrims. |
Publication Date: December 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: Roberts, Mary Nooter, Roberts, Allan F. |
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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