France24 (Video) Mali Dogon festival: Celebration in heart of Bamako. Posted: February 5, 2025 | Last updated: February 5, 2025. Mali holds its masked dance Dogon festival for the tenth year.

So you want to know what the rest of 2011 has in store for you? Well, you might consider consulting a fox. That is what the animist Dogon people of Mali do when they want to know whether that ...

In one cliff-top Dogon village, tourists crowd around a natural amphitheater to enjoy a traditional mask dance. The dance was once secret, and only men and orphaned women who were considered as ...

Dogon dancers, Bandiagara Escarpment, Mali, 2002 Photograph by Jimmy Chin. In 2002 I traveled through Mali with friends on one of my first trips to Africa.

The Dogon people are famous carvers and everywhere we go we see ornately carved doors and window shutters, ... In Tireli, we watch a version of the dance, a colourful parade of masked dancers, ...

For the past 30 years, Higgins has traveled the globe documenting the traditions, spirituality and dignity of people of African heritage.He has lived among and photographed Dogon dancers in Mali ...