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Balafon museum for Sikasso

I’ve just seen a post on the African Press Association website about a new African xylophone museum to be created in Sikasso. It will be the first museum designed to preserve the heritage of the… more →

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Balafon museum for Sikasso — 1 comment

sociolingo wrote 5 months ago: I’ve just seen a post on the African Press Association website about a new African xylophone m … more →

Tags: Entertainment, Life, Mali, Mali museums, Mali music

Mali Video: Jeli - griot

sociolingo wrote 6 months ago: Source: YouTube Here’s another video from africanskydotorg AfricanSky.Org presents a video s … more →

Tags: Culture, Entertainment, Mali culture, Mali music, Mali video

Mali: 10th International Conference on the Study and Conservation of Earthen Architecture — 1 comment

sociolingo wrote 8 months ago: I’ve been trying to find information and reports from Terra 2008 which was held in Mali from 1 … more →

Tags: Mali, mosques, Buildings, Jenné-jeno, Village houses, Mali archaeology, Mali architecture, academic, Mali conferences

Mali: Heritage laws

sociolingo wrote 9 months ago: Source: African Archaeology Net Mali [with the help of Dr.Daouda Keita] : > Loi n°62-75/ AN-RM d … more →

Tags: Mali archaeology, Mali culture, archaeology, Culture

Mali culture: Chi Wara Headdress — 1 comment

sociolingo wrote 9 months ago: Source: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Chi Wara Headdress 19th-20th century Bamana culture, Mali Wo … more →

Tags: Mali culture, Anthropology, Mali exhibitions, Mali arts and crafts, Arts, Culture

Mali: technology innovations — 2 comments

sociolingo wrote 1 year ago: I’ve just come across a web journal of a young engineering graduate, Tom Owen, who went to Mal … more →

Tags: Mali, Mali sustainable development, Environment, Mali culture, Mali pottery, Mali arts and crafts

Mali archaeology: Secrets of the Sahara - ancient manuscripts

sociolingo wrote 1 year ago: The following article was seen on the Ford Foundation’s website http://www.fordfound.org/publ … more →

Tags: academic, archaeology, Mali, Mali books, Timbuktu

A Day at the Mali National Museum

sociolingo wrote 1 year ago: The following article is from OCPA NEWS 179 A Day at the Mali National Museum - Like many other Afr … more →

Tags: Mali, Mali museums

Mali: Dogon sacred sites

sociolingo wrote 1 year ago:  Many people come to Mali with the intention of visiting the Dogon villages. Places of Peace and Po … more →

Tags: Anthropology, Buildings, Dogon, Mali, Mali archaeology, Mali architecture, Mali culture, Mali philosophy, Mali photography

Mali archaeology: Western Sudan 500-1000AD

sociolingo wrote 1 year ago:  The Metropolitan Museum of Art  Encompasses present-day Gambia, Guinea, Mali, Senegal, Bur … more →

Tags: Mali, Timbuktu, Jenné-jeno, Mali archaeology, Mali exhibitions, Mali museums

Mali archaeology: Western and Central Sudan 1000-1400AD — 1 comment

sociolingo wrote 1 year ago: Metropolitan Museum of Art pages Encompasses present-day Gambia, Guinea, Mali, Senegal, B … more →

Tags: Mali, Jenné-jeno, Mali photography, Mali archaeology, Mali culture, Mali exhibitions, Mali museums, Mali arts and crafts

Mali: Djenne and Djenne jenno

sociolingo wrote 1 year ago: Continuing my thoughts on Mali archaeology today, here is an article from a travel blog - Michael an … more →

Tags: Mali, mosques, Djénné, Jenné-jeno, Mali photography, Mali archaeology, Mali architecture, Mali pottery

Mali archaeology: Conserving Cultural Heritage with Microcredit — 1 comment

sociolingo wrote 1 year ago: Source: http://www.nsaccid.org/WARA%20Report.htm Conserving Cultural Heritage with Microcredit: An I … more →

Tags: Mali, Dogon, Mali cultural theft, Mali academic papers and reports, Mali archaeology, Mali culture, academic, archaeology

Mali: Safeguarding cultural policy — 1 comment

sociolingo wrote 1 year ago: From OCPA NEWS 175 Cheick Oumar Sissoko on Mali’s cultural policy “I believe my most important … more →

Tags: Mali, Politics, Positive news, Mali politics, Mali cultural theft, News, Mali archaeology, Mali culture, Mali news

Mali: The Timbuktu Libraries

sociolingo wrote 1 year ago: The Timbuktu Libraries   Back to Timbuktu Libraries Homepage Excerpts of a text … more →

Tags: Mali, Timbuktu, Mali libraries, Mali archaeology, Mali culture, Mali education, academic

Mali archaeology: Cultural theft of terracotta, bronzes and pottery from the Niger valley

sociolingo wrote 1 year ago: Source: http://icom.museum/redlist/afrique/english/page04.htm Terracotta, bronzes and pottery f … more →

Tags: Mali, Dogon, Djénné, Mali cultural theft, Mali academic papers and reports, Mali archaeology, Mali culture, academic

Mali: Bambara/Bamanan creation story

sociolingo wrote 1 year ago: Bambara/Bamanan creation story from Mali A little tale. A little tale The egg and the chick went t … more →

Tags: Mali, Mali culture, Mali folklore, Mali poetry

Mali: Faking African Art

sociolingo wrote 1 year ago: Here’s an article from a journal I found a while back which addresses the issues of fake archa … more →

Tags: academic, Dogon, Mali, Mali archaeology, Mali cultural theft, Mali culture, Mali journals

French customs sieze smuggled Mali artefacts — 1 comment

sociolingo wrote 1 year ago: The following article from BBC News draws attention to the fact that the smuggling of illegal artefa … more →

Tags: Djénné, Dogon, Jenné-jeno, Mali, Mali archaeology, Mali cultural theft, Mali culture, Mali travel, News


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