---

• n  large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork; its downy underwing feathers are used to trim garments

• A client suffering a fertility problem is sprayed with a medicinal liquid by the son of a marabout named Ciss in Sereres.
• In North Africa it produced radiant motifs: the green garden, the white breastlike curves of marabout domes, the angled cuts of shadow in street and alley, the blue haze of light .

• marabou
• marabou stork
• Leptoptilus crumeniferus

News & Articles

---

• ‘The Marabout’ Tells of One Man’s Mission to Convert an Empire
  Author Elizabeth Evans has created an engrossing tale of conflict and religion. (PRWeb September 27, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/ElizabethEvans/THEMARABOUT/prweb11170131.htm
  Sept. 28, 2013 - PRWeb

Quotes

---

• caliph Omar in AllAfrica.com
  We're lucky, we get to keep some of what we earn on the street, not like some talibes. I want to stay here and learn until I can be a marabout myself,10-year-old Umar said with a grin.
• Atiku Abubakar in BBC News
  The president said Mr Abubakar told the minister: "So the same marabout has told me that I will be President when this man (Obasanjo) dies and had given me a month that he will die, you better prepare."