General Dogon’s practice of creating custom bikes as art pieces began with a shopping cart. It was sometime in the vicinity of 2012 and the activist artist, an organizer for the Los Angeles Community ...

– After Mali became independent, Western dealers scoured the country in search of objets d’art. Some of these works, acquired under opaque conditions, are now worth several million euros. – We have ...

It takes a long time to say hello in Dogon. When you meet someone, you must always ask about their health. Then you must ask about the health of his wife or her husband, followed by inquiries about ...

Some three decades ago I became aware of the Dogon people through a book called “Conversations with Ogotemmelli,” by Marcel Griaule. For me, this interesting culture always symbolized the great ...

Mali’s Dogon Country can feel like a deliciously African evocation of the remote. Mali’s Dogon Country can feel like a deliciously African evocation of the remote. Dogon villages have no electricity.

ENSURING your partner doesn’t cheat is a perennial problem. Perhaps one solution is religion. Beverly Strassmann at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor has spent years studying the Dogon people of ...