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 ...

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 ...

Dogon, the newest project by acclaimed Nigerian-American chef Kwame Onwuachi, is welcoming Martel Scott to its team. (Courtesy Scott Suchman) Yes, Martel Stone has seen “The Bear,” and yes, he says ...

Bamako, Mali — Unknown assailants killed at least 95 people in an ethnic Dogon village overnight in the latest massacre to destabilize central Mali, a government official said Monday. The attacks may ...

The Dogon people of Mali are famous for their unique sculptures, which are a blend of cultural significance and artistic ...

In this arid area near the eastern edge of Mali near the Burkina Faso border, the indigenous Dogon people struggle to maintain their culture and traditional ways of life since the end of the colonial ...

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.

Dogon land in south-east Mali is a "sanctuary to be penetrated only by those who have undergone initiation rites". The magic of Dogon country is its inaccessibility, which has protected the ...

A DRY, biting wind swept in from the Sahara as my young guide, David Dolo; my driver, Mahmadou; and I followed a local animist priest up a rocky trail in Dogon country in central Mali. Below us, the ...

Julius Hemphill's "Dogon A.D." — the 15-minute piece, and the album that's named for it — was one of the startling jazz recordings of the 1970s, a rethinking of possibilities open to the avant-garde.