The village at the foot of the Bandiagara escarpment is approximately one kilometer long and is divided by a steep-walled gorge accessible only by foot. This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon ...

Mali’s Dogon Country can feel like a deliciously African evocation of the remote. ... too, has an otherworldly quality, clinging to the Bandiagara Escarpment as if an extension of the rock itself.

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 ...

Tellem burial caves in the Bandiagara cliffs in central Mali. The Tellems were driven out by the Dogons, who took over the caves 700 years ago.

The UN's culture organisation will restore the world heritage site of Bandiagara, in central Mali, which has been hit hard by the country's long-running conflict, it announced Tuesday.