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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.

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By pablostrip
August 17th 2008

dogon raster days

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sour la fallise
thats yakou guiding me on the fallaise

first of all, and i hope not to deceive anyone here, im still alive and fairly healthy. that being said, where were we... oh yes, dogon country. I spent four wonderful days in that wonderful land out of time with yakou, a real raster and possibly the best guide you can find in mali for the dogon land, and now someone I count among my friends. and the four days where wonderful. we walked a lot, we swam in some waterfalls along the way, we went through beautiful landscapes and some of the most beautiful towns ive seen. one day we [View Full Entry]

By pnltravels
May 13th 2008

Pays Dogon - Dogon Country

Africa » Mali » Dogon Country » Bandiagara

Village of Djiguibombo
Dogon Granary

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). After a brief tour of the town we started our walk to the edge of the Falaise de Bandiagara (Bandiagara Escarpment) and then down the escarpment to the plains below. Our group of two had grown to four with the addition of Yo and Mama. Yo is from France and Mama is from Burkina Faso. They speak almost no English and we speak spotty French. Our guide, Lac, helps us to translate sometimes, but [View Full Entry]

By nat_vallee
January 18th 2008

Mali trip part 2: New Year's and Mopti

Africa » Mali » Dogon Country » Mopti

Hotel room Bandiagara
Nice little place..

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 take a relaxing day off in Bandiagara at a hotel a bit out of town. We had the biggest pile of laundry ever to wash! Good thing for us.. we met a Ghanian Burkinabe woman.. who was all excited to meet us and did it for us! Hurray! The room was nice.. and the meals were good. That night.. we had African tea with the manager of the hotel [View Full Entry]

By nat_vallee
January 15th 2008

Mali trip part 1 : The Dogon Country

Africa » Mali » Dogon Country » Bandiagara

Waiting for Ouaga-Mopti Bus
Waiting.. a really important patient thing that happens a lot in Africa

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 for you to see and also, so I wont get pissed off with the slow connection and just go a crappy job. Cause yeah, really, just to post this blog entry takes me a whole afternoon. So much for working enh! But what can you do! So this entry follow the Christmas one. We left on December 26th, had a hard [View Full Entry]

By MrBradders
December 28th 2007

Good bye Mali

Africa » Mali » Dogon Country » Bandiagara

Well, What can i say about Mali other than what a wonderful little country it truly is! Yes, it may be one of the poorest in the world, with a sadly high infant mortality rate and low life expectancy, but the people are friendly beyond their means and make the place what it is... truly wonderful. To start with lets just get rid of any bad things you hear about Timbuktu... if Bob Geldof said "is this it" when he visited then he obviously didn't bump into any friendly Toureg. We were fortunate enough (as it turned out) to arrive in [View Full Entry]

By Viajerong Pinoy
December 25th 2007

A DARN GOOD DOGON CHRISTMAS

Africa » Mali » Dogon Country » Bandiagara

TIMBUKTU
MOHAMMED, A TUAREG TRADER

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 seated at the very back and the space is cramped. There was a lot of checkpoints quite annoying but the drivers are used to it and did not mind it,we got to a point where we need to cross the river to get accross the road to Timbuktu, as soon as we gotto the other side the roads got [View Full Entry]

By AfricaBound
November 17th 2007

Dogon Country

Africa » Mali » Dogon Country

Dogon masked dancer
They put on quite the show.

Following Timbuktu we made the drive back to Sevare (near Mopti) with the repaired truck along the same road responsible for the damage (there is only one road to Timbuktu). We made it without any major consequences this time. From Sevare we drove to the village of Bandiagara and onwards to the village where we left the truck once again to start our 3 day trek through Dogon country. To quote Wikipedia: "The Dogon are a group of people living in the central plateau region of Mali, south of the Niger bend near the city of Bandiagara in the Mopti region. [View Full Entry]

By Kate in Africa
September 30th 2007

Dogon Country, here we come!

Africa » Mali » Dogon Country » Bandiagara

chaos at the river's edge

After a quick breakfast of bread, strawberry jelly, and tea, we repacked our backpacks and threw them in our crowded sept-place. We were on our way to Dogon Country! According to Lonely Planet, it is in the top 10 places to see before you die, so we were all quite excited. We were driving from Sévaré to Bandiagara to Kani-Kombolé and then hiking for the next three days. Salif told us we were going to be switching drivers before we got to Bandiagara, but we weren't exactly sure why. It turns out you have almost no choice but to switch drivers [View Full Entry]

Salif giving the reassuring smile, and Sarah is not buying it

the whole group on the way to Kani-Kombolé

By Marcoelitaliano
July 30th 2007

Spot Me, Greet Me, Hassle Me, Guide Me

Africa » Mali » Dogon Country » Bandiagara

Yesterday... Today
Photo: Amelie Mouchette

I got my first taste of Mali in Banjul, Gambia, while trying to localize the relevant consulate. This had turned out to be a decaying shack from whose balcony hung the remaining shreds of what must have been once a flag. Inside the courtyard, written in chalk on the wall, there were a name, a phone number and the invitation to call. Had I been elsewhere I wouldn’t have given credit to what I was actually seeing, but in Africa, I’ve learnt it by now, impossible is nothing. So I just found a phone booth and called and -most surreal of [View Full Entry]

By rosekanasty
July 27th 2007

Hiking in Dogon Country

Africa » Mali » Dogon Country

In early July I took a four-day trip to Mali with Omar, Christine, Will, and Rhadika. From Ouaga we took a bus north to Ouahigouya, where we piled into a van-sized bush taxi headed to Koro, Mali. North of Ouahigouya the paved road gave way to dirt and the landscape became progressively drier, the vegetation more sparse. The three boarder checkpoints consisted of small cement buildings and/or thatch shade huts along 20 km of road that may belong to Burkina or Mali. For more than a half hour of travel time the stamps in our passports indicated that we had [View Full Entry]

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