Mali

36 images | Updated: 30 Jul 2010 | VIEW SLIDESHOW


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  • Blacksmiths recycle lids of old oil barrels into frying pans at 'Cooperative des Forgerons' in Bamako, Mali.
  • Roadside hair salon outside of Bamako, Mali.
  • Roadside grocery shop outside Bamako, Mali.
  • Small mud mosque in Binguébougou near Ségou, Mali.
  • A man wearing a traditional qamis (robe) walks past a mudhouse near Ségou, Mali.
  • A photographer sitting outside his roadside studio near Ségou, Mali.
  • A child walks near the mosque of Kalabougou, a small village on the shore of the Niger river near Ségou, Mali.
  • Children hanging out at at the market in Soumadougou, Mali.
  • A woman sitting on the ground at the roadside market in Markala, near Ségou, Mali.
  • A boy running in the street uses an old tire as a toy, Markala, Mali.
  • A jewellery artisan hammers a silver strip on an anvil at his studio, Ségou, Mali.
  • A girl and her friends at the Markala market, Mali.
  • A woman pounds millet in a courtyard, Niongono, Dogon Country, Mali.
  • A man and his grandson walk in a narrow street in Djenne, Mali.
  • Village of Niongono at sunset, Dogon country, Mali.
  • A dogon chief walking past a granary carries millet beer in a calabash container, Djigibombo, Dogon country, Mali.
  • Young woman weaving, Ennde, Dogon Country, Mali.
  • Women washing dishes, Ennde, Dogon Country, Mali.
  • An image of US President barack Obama is visible on a boy's sandal, Dogon Country, Mali.
  • A girl pounds millet in a small courtyard, Ennde, Dogon Country, Mali
  • A girl balances a stack of beverage crates on her head, Begnimato, Dogon Country, Mali.
  • A group of men perform traditional Dogon dances, Endelou, Dogon country, Mali.
  • A young man irrigates an onion field with water from a calabash, Dioundourou, Dogon Country, Mali.
  • A boy carries water in calabashes for use in a nearby onion field, Dogon plateau, Mali.
  • Isolated part of the Dogon plateau on a hazy day, Mali.
  • Young boy wearing a t-shirt with a picture of US President Barack Obama, Konsogou Ley, Dogon Country, Mali
  • A dogon woman sitting in a courtyard pours millet into a calabash container, Dioundourou, Dogon Country, Mali.
  • Crocodiles lay on the edge of a 'sacred pond' in Amani, Dogon country, Mali
  • Mask-wearing dancers perfom a ritual dance on stilts in the Dogon village of Tireli, Mali.
  • A family travels on a donkey carriage, on the shore of the Niger river, Mali.
  • A boy steers a small sailboat on the Niger river, Mali. Western Africa's most important river springs in Guinea, stretches over four thousand kilometers and crosses Mali, Niger, Benin and Nigeria. Its basin covers over 7% of Africa's landmass. The river's inner delta, in central Mali, is a swampy region which floods annually making it very productive for fishing and agriculture.
  • A satellite dish and television antennas are erected on a mud house in Sibé, a small fishing village on the shore of the Niger river, Mali.
  • A woman and her children walk near a large tree in the small village of Sibé, along the Niger river, Mali.
  • Tuareg camel riders in the Sahara desert at sunrise, Timbuktu, Mali.
  • A tuareg showing his camel's teeth, Timbuktu, Mali.
  • Panoramic view of the dogon village of Niongono at sunset, Mali.