The Dogon live in the cliffs of the Bandiagara escarpment, and on the plains that stretch to the southeast into Upper Volta. Their oral history indicates that they are not the original inhabitants of the region, but migrated from the Mande area in...
In addition to working at the University of Iowa's Honors Program, Sarah Prineas is a writer whose stories have appeared in Realms of Fantasy, Paradox, and Cicada, and in the Hugo-nominated online magazine Strange Horizons. Three of her stories...
Figures of this type, among the oldest wooden objects from Africa, have been preserved by the dry climate and relative absence of insects in the Bandiagara escarpment, where they have been discovered in association with burials in small caves high...
Among the Dogon, as among many groups in the upper basin of the Volta Rivers, dogs are frequently the victims of sacrifices to ancestral spirits. Griaule (1938: 348.350) describes the sacrifice of a dog during rites marking the opening of the...