In the Dogon

The next trip took me from Bamako via Djenne and Mopti
to the Dogon region. In this report, I will start with the journey to the
Dogon region. The Dogon are an African ethnic group who live in West Africa in the east of Mali and originally come from the northwest of Burkina Faso. The Dogon people currently number about 350,000. The Dogon now live at the western end of the Hombori Mountains on the cliffs of Bandiagara, which were declared a World Heritage site in 1989. The Dogon apparently migrated to the Hombori Mountains area only a few hundred years ago, fleeing from the cavalry armies of the Mossi, displacing the indigenous population of the Telle, who may be identical to the Kurumba in Burkina Faso (Laude, 1973). According to Roy (1983), the Dogon lived in the northwest of Burkina Faso until 1480. After the assassination of Gaddafi, when Gaddafi's private army, consisting of Tuareg, returned to Mali, there were heavy fighting. When the jihadists saw what the Tuareg were doing, they joined them and moved towards Bamako, the capital.

Now it has reached the point that the herders are fighting the farmers for land and sometimes killing entire communities on both sides.