
18 May Gambia Doors – unique and colourful doors and storefronts of The Gambia, West Africa
Gambia Doors – I have a slight obsession with doors and storefronts. These images form part of a much wider collection of photographs of doors and storefronts from The Gambia. Wherever I travel to, for work or play, the collection gets bigger! #DisappearingMalta is also another extensive collection. As featured in the Times of Malta
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Featured image: A mural depicting disciples, Lamp Faal and Baye Faal, of the Mouride Sufi Brotherhood, in the capital city, Banjul
The Mouride Sufi brotherhood is a sect of Islam most prominent in Senegal and The Gambia with headquarters in the city of Touba, Senegal, which is a holy city for the order. Disciples are called Mourides, from the Arabic word murīd (“one who desires”), a term used generally in Sufism to designate a disciple of a spiritual guide.

Image ©Helen Jones-Florio

‘Fukajai’ – roughly translates as shake off the dust
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#StoriesBehindDoors, The Gambia – Behind this gate is the family compound of ‘the late Omar Barrow’ (which, when asking for directions, is how the house is described by neighbours). On April 10, 2000 – Omar, a journalist, and International Community Red Cross volunteer, was shot by a uniformed member of Gambia’s security forces during student protests, as he was trying to help injured students at the Red Cross Headquarters. Tragically, he was pronounced dead a few hours later at Banjul’s Victoria Hospital. Omar was 28 years old. He is survived by his wife, Awa, and daughter, Fatou (she was only a few months old when her father was killed), who we met and photographed for an on-going series with award-winning photographer, Jason Florio: ‘Gambia – victims, and resisters’
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