Collaboration, Modernity and Colonial Rule: Sidiyya Baba and Mauritania
By David Robinson
Sidiyya Baba in Prayer
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Description: The French officer Henri Gouraud spent a great deal of time in Butilimit, Sidiyya Baba's capital, in 1908-10, when he was leading the French conquest of central Mauritania or Adrar. He or someone on his staff took this picture of Baba at prayer in his courtyard.
Date Range: 1900-1909
Location: Butilimit, Mauritania
Format: Image/jpeg
Rights Management: For educational use only.
Digitizer: MATRIX
Source: Gouraud, Henri, Mauritanie Adrar. Souvenirs d'un africain (Paris: Plon, 1945), facing p 64.
