#mali

[tlotrgifs]

[pam3pr]

Door in the Baobab tree, Mali, 2009

[friendswithclay]

“Women in the balcony, Djenne, Mali. Women are talking to each other in the old city of Djenne.”

Ph by: Attila Jandi

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Yeelen (Souleymane Cissé, 1987)

[smsomah]

Mali, 1949. From the book Hector Acebes: portraits in Africa; 1948-1953; via archive.org

[itswadestore]

Couple à la moto by Mory Bamba, 1960

[tinyuglyworld]

tuareg rock band, tinariwen

"The young Tinariwen are invited to a new camp near Tripoli. This camp was run by the MPA (Mouvement Populaire de l’Azawad), a Tuareg rebel movement fighting for a new independent state. There, they met a new group of aspiring musicians, including Kedou Ag Ossade (aka ‘Hiwaj’), Mohammed Ag Itlale (aka ‘Japonais’), Sweiloum, Abouhadid and Abdallah Ag Alhousseyni. Their music became interlinked with the cause – the Tuareg’s fight for education, independence and political freedom. Working from a makeshift rehearsal studio, they wrote and recorded songs, free for anyone who turned up at their door with a blank cassette tape. Through the exchange of cassettes – often dubbed copies, or copies of copies – Tinariwen’s songs of hope, struggle and exile spread through settlements and camps across the Sahara." source

[nobrashfestivity]

Unknown, Bamana group, Altar figues. Mali area

Boli sculpture depicts an animal such as hippopotamus or cow but in ritual use builds into a dark accumulation of mud, blood, and sacrificial materials in which the form becomes ambiguous.