Polly and Al Roberts

 

UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures

 

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During a visit to Dakar, Senegal, in May 2009, Al Roberts photographed this street-side display of devotional imagery now produced in China rather than locally. His article for the journal _African Arts_, "Recolonization of an African Visual Economy," (2010, 42 [3], 1, 4-8) resulted from this new research.


























Polly and Al Roberts have documented an extraordinary achievement of Senegalese vernacular architecture for fifteen years now, as Serigne Omar Sy and his followers construct and dwell within a most beautiful environment of reeds, made from this unusual material to celebrate the stylus with which one writes the Word of God.