Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba Day, August 09, 2011

The day has come again, to celebrate Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba Mbacke day in Raleigh. We will start the event with an exposition on Life and Legacy of the Cheikh at the Raleigh Convention Center and hold a conference in the evening, click on the read article for more details.

A slave and scholar, Omar Ibn Said led an exceptional life

Omar Ibn Said spent much of his life as a slave on a Bladen County plantation, but some claimed he was reared as a Muslim prince in Africa.

The deeply religious man lived a life of celebrity, the subject of national newspaper and magazine stories despite his lowly status in the antebellum South.

Said (who last name also is spelled Sayyid, Saeed and Sa'id) is believed to have come to the United States in 1807, shortly before the foreign slave trade ceased.

SHAYKH ABDU QADR MBACKE FOURTH CALIPH OF MURIDIYYA (1914-1989)

At the evocation of Shaykh Abdul Qadr Mbacke, the forth caliph of Murids from 1989 to 1990 a shared sense stands: bitterness. The Murid community cannot depart from the feeling, conviction that it has been deprived too soon of a foster father so generous in favours, and benefits of all kinds.

The City of Raleigh, NC has proclaimed August 9 as Sheikh Ahmadou Bamba Day.

US Embassy on the Behalf of Secretary of State Hillarry Clinton presented its condoleances to the new Caliph General

Ms. Marcia Bernicat, U.S. Ambassador to Senegal Touba was Thursday, July 29, 2010 to offer condolences to the Caliph General Sheikh Sidi Mukhtar Mourides MBACKE. Ms. Ambassador and his delegation were welcomed at the entrance to the city on behalf of Caliph Serigne Cheikh Thioro by MBACKE and Serigne Bassirou Thioro MBACKE, then headed to the residence of the Caliph in the neighborhood "Gouye Mbinda"

Visit of Serigne Mame Mor Mbacke 2010

Serigne Mame Mor MBacke will be in Raleigh from  August 8 until August 10, 2010. Sheikh Ahmadou Bamba day will be celebrated on Monday  August 9.