The Bandiagara site is an outstanding landscape of cliffs and sandy plateaux with some beautiful architecture (houses, granaries, altars, sanctuaries and Togu Na, or communal meeting-places). Several ...

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Some three decades ago I became aware of the Dogon people through a book called “Conversations with Ogotemmelli,” by Marcel Griaule. For me, this interesting culture always symbolized the great ...

Mali’s Dogon Country can feel like a deliciously African evocation of the remote. Mali’s Dogon Country can feel like a deliciously African evocation of the remote. Dogon villages have no electricity.

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Rising abruptly from the sub-Saharan savanna, the sheer Falaise de Bandiagara stretches for nearly 100 miles through the West African nation of Mali. More than 1,000 feet tall, this dramatic UNESCO ...

THE social and religious institutions of the Dogon, a cliff-dwelling Negro tribe of Mendi origin who occupy the Bandiagara escarpment of the French Sudan, have formed the subject of extensive study by ...