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.

Read our recently published guides to best practices in digitizing text and multimedia resources. Download them today from our "Best Practices" site.

Click here and to view and/or download the resource
Illa Tall, imam of the Mosque, Koussan--direct decendant of Hajj Oumar
Description: Illa Tall, imam of the Mosque, Koussan--direct decendant of Hajj Oumar
Publication Date: April 14, 1966
AODL Contributing Partner: Phil Curtin
Copyright: All images copyright Phil Curtin
Author: Author Unknown
Interviewer: Curtin, Phil

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

Galleries | Research | Institutions | Best Practices | Search | Home