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Observe the Dogon dancers of Mali performing wearing Kanaga masks
Kanaga masks worn by Dogon dancers of Mali. These masks are traditionally...
Images
Mali
Traditional Dogon harvest ceremony in Tirelli, Mali, on the east side of the Bandiagara...
©Millaus/Dreamstime.com
Mali
Traditional thatched and mud-walled buildings in Hombori, Mali.
© trevor kittelty/Shutterstock.com
Mali: fisherman on the Bani River
Fisherman setting his nets in the Bani River in Mali.
© Index Open
Mali: Dogon cliff village
Characteristic Dogon cliff village on the Bandiagara Escarpment.
Victor Englebert
Lac Débo, central Mali
Mud houses on an island in Lac Débo, central Mali.
Jialiang Gao/www.peace-on-earth.org
Mali: Djenné Great Mosque and open-air market
The open-air market near the mosque in Djenné, Mali.
© robinheal/Fotolia
Tinariwen
The Tuareg musical group Tinariwen performing in Vienna, Austria, on September 7,...
Manfred Werner
Chiwara headdress
Bambara dance headdress of wood in the form of an antelope, representing the spirit...
The National Museum of Denmark, Department of Ethnography
Mali: Bambara segoni-kun
Bambara segoni-kun, made from wood and fibre, Mali.
A. Held/J.P. Ziolo, Paris
Principal kingdoms and peoples of western Africa, 11th–16th century
Map showing the principal kingdoms (at their greatest territorial extent) and peoples...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Timbuktu
French explorer René-Auguste Caillié's drawing of Timbuktu, Mali, 1830.
From Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo and across the Great Desert, to Morocco, performed in the years 1824-1828, by René Caillié, 1830
European penetration into western Africa in the late 19th century
Map showing the penetration into western Africa by European countries in the late...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
colonization of Africa by European countries
Map showing the colonization of Africa by European countries in the early 1900s.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
2015 Bamako hotel attack
A body being removed from the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, Mali, after it was attacked,...
© Habibou Kouyate—AFP/Getty Images
Dejenné, Mali: mosque
Mosque at Dejenné, Mali, designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1988.
© jean claude braun/Fotolia
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