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Mali: Ancient Crossroads of Africa

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Mali Photo Gallery

Mali Photos by Dr. Chris Drake

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Map of ancient kingdoms of West Africa.

Map of present-day Mali.

Mali from the air: the watered and the dry areas.

The Niger inland Delta.

A Tuareg camp in the Sahel outside Timbuktu.

Tuareg on camels near Timbuktu.

The Sankore Mosque in Timbuktu.

The courtyard of the Sankore Mosque in Timbuktu.

River traffic on the Niger river near Ségou.

Salt slabs (and other merchandise) in the market at Timbuktu.

Salt at the market in Mopti.

Old Djenné mud-brick houses disintegrating.

Djenné mosque with a woman carrying firewood on her head and a baby.

Djenné mosque with weekly market in the foreground.

Women and calabashes.

People waiting to cross the Bani river on the way to Djenné.

People dancing while waiting for the Bani ferry to Djenné. Note the gold earrings worn by the woman on the right.

A barge on the Niger river.

People mending fishing nets along the Niger river.

Traditional homes along the Niger river.

A Bozo village along the Niger river.

People at the Bozo village.

A Fulani village along the Niger river.

A Fulani mosque along the Niger river.

People washing clothes in the Niger river.

Banani village at the foot of the Bandiagara escarpment.

Ploughing in Dogon country.

Field of millet

Sorghum and millet.

Pounding the millet.

Savanna: scrubby grass with some trees.

Cattle near Djenné.

Dry, level ground of the Sahel.

Ploughing a dry field with a horse.

Kola nuts at the market.

Village in the dry savanna.

Drying fish from the Niger river over a fire.

A woman hoeing with a baby on the back.

A storage place in Sangko in Dogon country.

Journey to Mali by Mary Liscomb

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The village chief of Tiyo

A young boy carries a bowl of millet home from the field.

A woman and her baby carrying the family noon time meal into the millet field.

This little boy is collecting water for his family.

A grandmother returns from the market with her grandchildren.

A family prepares to go to market.

This mosque in Timbuktu is the oldest mud structure in the world.

A griot in Bamako singing and playing his guitar.

A masked villager dancing to celebrate the harvest.

A griot in Tiyo rings a bell to help direct the masked villager during a festival.

A woman in Tiyo dances during a festival. Women form a circle around the outside of the men to perform theatrical dances.

Malian landscape near Segou` during the dry season.

Malian landscape near Segou` during the rainy season.

Hills near Bamako. Habitat of the few lions still found in Mali. Elephants also pass through this area on their migration path.

Children in Bamako proudly sit on top of a pile of corn their family harvested during the rainy season.

Women of Tiyo working in the field to harvest the millet.

A man finds a cool place to sit on the roots of a tree along the of the Niger River. Hippopotamas and alligators make their homes here.

Nomadic Tauregs of the Sahara Desert.

A traditional bread oven in Timbuktu.

A market in Djenne.

Women selling beautifully carved gourd bowls in a market in Segou`.

The women of Markala selling hot peppers.

The meat market in Markala.