Bori practice among enslaved West Africans of Ottoman Tunis: Unbelief (Kufr) or another dimension of the African diaspora?

► We trace and analyse the evolution of Bori cult in Ottoman-Tunis. ► We re-evaluate al-Timbuktawi's condemnation of the cult's practice in Tunis. ► We place Bori in Tunis in its proper historical and African diasporic contexts. ► We stressed on the African diaspora dimension of the Bori in Tunis.