The Senufo are an agricultural people of the savannah zone of northern Côte d'Ivoire, southern Mali, and western Burkina Faso. Their culture is organised around the Poro — a male initiation society wh
The Dogon are an ancient people of the Bandiagara Escarpment in Mali — a 500-kilometre sandstone cliff rising dramatically above the plains of the Niger bend. They settled here, in cliff-face villages