General Dogon’s practice of creating custom bikes as art pieces began with a shopping cart. It was sometime in the vicinity of 2012 and the activist artist, an organizer for the Los Angeles Community ...

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.

Bamako, Mali — Unknown assailants killed at least 95 people in an ethnic Dogon village overnight in the latest massacre to destabilize central Mali, a government official said Monday. The attacks may ...

Julius Hemphill's "Dogon A.D." — the 15-minute piece, and the album that's named for it — was one of the startling jazz recordings of the 1970s, a rethinking of possibilities open to the avant-garde.

A DRY, biting wind swept in from the Sahara as my young guide, David Dolo; my driver, Mahmadou; and I followed a local animist priest up a rocky trail in Dogon country in central Mali. Below us, the ...

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In this arid area near the eastern edge of Mali near the Burkina Faso border, the indigenous Dogon people struggle to maintain their culture and traditional ways of life since the end of the colonial ...

There were two separate articles in the INQUIRER recently which caught my interest. The first was the column of professor Randy David asking where on earth Mali was, and the other was the story of an ...

At least 95 people were killed when gunmen raided their village in central Mali late on Sunday, FRANCE 24 has confirmed, marking the latest attack in a region that has witnessed a resurgence of ethnic ...