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 ...

of Splendora returned to the people and land that have captured her heart -- the Dogon in West Africa. She and seven other members of the United Baptist Church in Splendora spent five weeks this ...

DOGON COUNTRY, Mali — The woman balanced a large bundle of firewood on her head, steadying it with her left hand. In her right, she grasped the handles of a black plastic bag. Yet, she still managed ...

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 ...

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 ...

PARIS (Reuters) - With its full beard and elongated breasts, worn smooth by the hands of thousands of women praying for fertility, an androgynous wooden statue is the centrepiece of a new Paris show ...

The insider-outsider dichotomy is central to artists approaching cultures other than their own, and few have engaged this so perceptively—even prophetically—as the French anthropological filmmaker ...

The slaughter on Saturday of more than 130 Fulani herdsmen in central Mali, allegedly by members of the Dogon ethnic group, is the latest and most deadly incident in an increasingly violent conflict.

The Dogon culture blossomed in the spectacular rocky landscape of Bandiagara in what is now Mali. The natural and cultural heritage of the Dogon has been on the UNESCO world heritage list since 1989.

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 ...