Background: The Sudanese Republic and Senegal became independent of France in 1960 as the Mali Federation. When Senegal withdrew after only a few months, what formerly made up the Sudanese Republic was renamed Mali. Rule by dictatorship was brought to a close in 1991 with a transitional government and in 1992 when Mali's first democratic presidential election was held. After his reelection in 1997, President Alpha KONARE continued to push through political and economic reforms and to fight corruption. In keeping with Mali's two-term constitutional limit, he stepped down in 2002 and was succeeded by Amadou TOURE.
May 13th 2008Africa » Mali » Dogon Country » Bandiagara Pays Dogon. Dogon Country. Beautiful. Spectacular. Surprising.
Our trek into the Dogon Country started early from Bandiagara with a drive to Djiguibombo (delightfully pronounced Jiggy-boom-bo). ... 23 photos[full story]
January 18th 2008Africa » Mali » Dogon Country » Mopti So… here it goes and continues… about a month later! Sorry.. I’m trying to catch up on the lack of communication here!
So.. after the whole Dogon Country thing.. we decided to t ... 29 photos[full story]
January 15th 2008Africa » Mali » Dogon Country » Bandiagara Alright.. as Courtney and I took about 600 pictures during the whole trip and there are just so many of them, I decided to divide the Mali trip in Half so that I could put as many pictures as possible ... 34 photos[full story]
December 25th 2007Africa » Mali » Dogon Country » Bandiagara From Sevare we drove on 4WD trucks to take us to Timbuktu, 7 hours it took for yus to get there an hour on paved road then the dirt tracks started, quite bumpy, I got bruises on my legs as I was seate ... 71 photos[full story]
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