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The death of an icon for Islam in Senegal

fizzix — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:00:24 -0800

Serigne Saliou (article in French) Mbacké, the leader of the Mourides (academic link), a prominent Islamic brotherhood in Senegal (and Harlem, NY , died a week ago today. Arguably the most influential person in Senegal, he had been the the last living son of the Mouride founder Chiekh Amadou Bamba. Thousands of peoplehave traveled Touba, the Mouride capital, to pay their respects. More background information by Reuters regarding the Mourides.

music videos from West Africa

nickyskye — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:28:51 -0800

#1 African Music Website. Africa Hit offers an extensive and varied selection of great music videos from West Africa. Africa Hit news, in French and English, mostly music biz news in West African countries: Cote D'Ivoire, Congo(R.D.C), Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroun, Mali, Guinée and Senegal. Happy New Year!

"Father of African film" passes on

RogerB — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:30:32 -0800

Ousmane Sembene, Senegalese writer and film maker, has died.

Plymouth - Dakar Challenge

stbalbach — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 23:27:52 -0800

Plymouth - Dakar Challenge 2005. 3000 mile race from Britain to Senegal, Africa. The Rules: Participant cars must cost $100UK pounds or less. Maximum budget for vehicle preparation: $15UK pounds. No outside assistance during race drivers are on their own. First to finish wins, cars donated to charity.

Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba Mbacké

Mo Nickels — Sat, 06 Sep 2003 07:50:00 -0800

A single photograph taken in 1913 of Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba Mbacké—the Santé Serigne Touba, founder of the Sufi sect known as the Mouride (Murid) Way, followed by millions in Senegal and elsewhere—when he was put under house arrest by the French, has provided remarkable consistency to the sect's iconography. Images of the cheikh: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and more. Story on an art exhibit and the web site of the exhibit, including more images of the cheikh. History of Bamba's life in French and in English. More on Muridism.

arrowhead — Sun, 16 Jun 2002 02:22:34 -0800

Yet another African dream. After Cameroon's heroics of Italia '90, Senegal follow up with a quarter-final achievement themselves.

apostasy — Thu, 09 May 2002 03:31:43 -0800

Since 1996, The Osprey Project has been re-introducing the osprey into the United Kingdom, and since 1999 has been tracking its migrations, which stretch as far south as Senegal, and can include marathon stretches of open-ocean flight.

Oh, and sometimes they even make it Back.

rschram — Fri, 21 Dec 2001 20:33:56 -0800

Léopold Sedar Senghor, poet and first president of Senegal, dies at 95
He was the founder the négritude movement in French poetry, and a leader of African socialism. This "This Day" article discusses the political side, crediting him with Senegal's relative peace and success. This Libération article gives some biographical details. Like his friend and colleague, Senghor's negritude poems used images and symbolism of African folk cultures in French modernist verse to create a liberated identity for Africans.

clockwork — Thu, 09 Nov 2000 00:02:32 -0800

Senegal's Elections make for an intresting comparison to this one, don't you think?