During Ramadan, Senegal’s Baye Fall community lives to serve through iftar meals

Each Ramadan, members of Senegal’s Baye Fall gather in their holy city of Touba to cook and distribute Iftar meals.

Thousands of followers of a unique Senegalese Muslim community, the Baye Fall, worked with electric fervour on a recent morning preparing iftar meals for breaking the Ramadan fast, even though they themselves were not fasting.

Unlike other Muslims, the Baye Fall for the most part neither pray nor fast, despite the two…