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 ...

Growing up near the village of Sangha on Mali's Bandiagara Escarpment, Amahigueré Dolo always felt compelled to make art. How could he not? He lived in the heart of Dogon country, which is famous for ...

The procession of Dogon masks that come out to perform during dama ceremonies, or the end of mourning, represent various aspects of Dogon cosmology, evoking personalities or events from mythology; ...

Concepts of comparative cosmology -- Signature signs of the parent cosmology -- The Dogon mythological structure of matter -- Symbolism -- Guiding metaphors of the cosmology -- The egg-in-a-ball -- ...