The festival is now in its 10th year and chief organiser Pierre Adeye said it had been a "true success", with the parade of masks again the highlight. Dogon-style wrestling and boat races were ...

The purpose of the "Festival des Masques et Marionettes," - "Festival of Masks and Puppets" - in the major city of Segou, is to preserve the culture of Malli's Dogon people. The Dogon are best ...

The Kanaga mask is used in deeply sacred rituals by the Dogon people of Mali Carving this mask is as important a ritual as the ceremonies in which the mask is used The carver a blacksmith finds ...

Mali’s Dogon Country can feel like a deliciously ... to villages which serve as shrines to the ancestors; the sacred masks; the hidden taboos; the echoes of the Sigui Festival, held only every ...

"Dogon" at the Musee du quai Branly (www.quaibranly.fr) from April 5 to July 24 displays more than 300 wooden sculptures - statues, masks, and carved bas-relief granary doors of the Dogon people ...

More than 270 sculptures, masks and everyday objects from public and private collections across the world on display in Bonn show why the Dogon culture counts as one of the most significant in Africa.

The natural and cultural heritage of the Dogon has been on the UNESCO world heritage list since 1989. More than 270 of the most beautiful objects from the region, including masks, sculptures and ...