The New Humanitarian (Geneva) Bandiagara, Mali — A generational event offers a chance for local unity and self-discovery. I can remember many moments of wonder from my youth.

Dogon lands are divided into three distinct regions: a rugged sandstone plateau; the Bandiagara escarpment – a towering cliff where small villages are nestled into the rocky face – and a sandy plain ...

The 90-mile-long sandstone cliffs of the Bandiagara Escarpment rise magnificently from the scrub-littered plains of Mali. Impressive villages of thatched buildings nestle under its outcrops.

Former tour guide Issa Sankare used to take visitors to the spectacular Bandiagara escarpment in nearby Mali with its cave houses. But now he works as a mechanic.

The Nenets reindeer herders of Siberia, the Barasana living in the forests of the Colombian Amazon, and the Dogon dwelling in the cliffs of the Bandiagara Escarpment in Mali, have no more in ...

The secluded region along the Bandiagara Escarpment where the Dogon people took refuge from Muslim marauders in the 15th century has preserved a distinctive animist outlook, mostly intact even today.

“Mali Magic”, this is the name of this new Google Arts & Culture project in which you can see more than 40,000 digitized pages of manuscripts on science, history or geography; you will be able ...