I'm sitting in the courtyard of a mud-walled compound in a village in central Mali ... Two days earlier, in the village of Hombori, I had met an elderly man who told me that a young Dogon from ...

Bandiagara, Mali — A generational ... in a lifetime experience for many Dogon. The last one began in 1967, which means the next is scheduled in just two years. I am hoping to witness it for ...

There have been numerous attacks in Mali in recent months, some ethnically driven, some carried out by jihadist groups. Clashes between Dogon hunters and semi-nomadic Fulani herders are frequent.

Beginning of the sextenary festival of the Sigui among the Dogon of the Bandiagara cliff in Mali. This first ceremony takes place at the village of Yougo Dogorou. The men, shaved and dressed in ...