Dónal Hassett: Fascinating stuff in Guinean archives. A report from 1916 of a chief, Tirno Ibrahim, who had pictures of the Ottoman Sultan, his son and Empress Augusta of Germany pinned on the wall of his home. He claimed a trader told him they were Joseph (Youssoufou), the prophet and Fatima. They believed him.

Fascinating stuff in Guinean archives. A report from 1916 of a chief, Tirno Ibrahim, who had pictures of the Ottoman Sultan, his son and Empress Augusta of Germany pinned on the wall of his home. He claimed a trader told him they were Joseph (Youssoufou), the prophet and Fatima. They believed him.