Baye Fall: Roots in Spirituality, Fashion and Resistance

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December 4 - March 1, 2020

Baye Fall: Roots in Spirituality, Fashion and Resistance

Museum of the African Diaspora

Photography by Laylah Amatullah Barrayn

Baye Fall: Roots in Spirituality, Fashion, and Resistance is a photographic series that visually engages the Baye Fall, an enterprising sub-group of Senegal’s notable Sufi Muslim community, the Mourides. These images encourage viewers to contemplate Sufism in a West African context by exploring the community’s reverence for Baye Fall’s founder and leader, Cheikh Amadou Bamba, and his most celebrated disciple, Ibrahima Fall, the namesake of this suborder.