The mystical Dogon people of Mali
The mystical Dogon people of Mali
Author(s): Lawrence Tusabe
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Category: General
Country: Mali
Content: Indigenous Knowledge
Timeline: Prehistory - Any time before 10000 BC
Published: 1996
Description
Since I introduced the topic as the “holistic architecture of Mali,” it is only right that we now head on to central Mali.
In the Mopti region, there lies no more than half a million of the remaining Dogon people. Theirs is a story of strive and their place of dwelling is also a perfect representation of a fight to defend their spirituality.
Dogon architecture, nestled in the safety of Bandiagara Escarpment, was home to those who resisted the forceful Islam conversion in the 1400’s.
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