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Gana bali, Dogon
... to us, sounded like a long rhythmic verse consisting of poli and seo. Usually these exchanges were just formalities, but Baba told us, that it was expected that if one was told about an ill family member or perhaps a newborn, they would visit the very next day.
Just some way from the Dogon village was a Tellem village, also in the cliff-side. It was cave dwellings cut into the cliff and tellingly small, to suit the small stature of the pygme people. All along the escarpment ...
Zu Fuss von Dorf zu Dorf
... und die Masken werden vor der Allgemeinheit versteckt aufbewahrt.
Mittlerweile haben es auch der Islam und die katholische Kirche bis hierher geschafft – in den meisten Dörfern gibt es also neber der ursprünglichen Naturreligion auch Christen und Moslems, aber alle leben friedlich und respektvoll neben- und teilweise miteinander. Und die alten Traditionen der Naturreligion werden auch weiterhin ...
Ouahigouya, January 13, 2009 - Tuesday
I was out in front of the hotel considerably earlier than eight in the morning. That's how it is in Africa. Unless you’re a local or dying to go partying every night, an average African settlement doesn’t necessarily beckon with night life. On the face of it, everything closes up quite early and a lone wolf like me usually has little choice other than to retreat into the hotel room. And being early in your hotel room usually translates into being up early next ...
Ouahigouya, January 12, 2009 - Monday
January 12, 2009 - Monday
And then it was finally Ouahigouya. Whoever has never tried to undertake the trip from Mopti would undoubtedly find it hard to believe that it easily took me eight hours to cover the distance of… what? Some two hundred and twenty kilometres as the crow flies? Make it three hundred on the ground? If at all? Something that anywhere in Europe wouldn't take more than three hours of a very conservative driving, border crossings included?
And ...
Thiou, January 12, 2009 - Monday
When we left the last inhabited spot in Mali, I expected to see some kind of mark or something, which would officially announce that we had entered Burkina Faso. However, there was nothing of the sort along the way. The first thing I noticed was a roadside milestone which told us that Ouaga was 240 away. So that's how I knew we had definitely left Mali. But nothing official.
Instead of that, we were treated to a different kind of spectacle. Our ...
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