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In Mali, Quietude Amid the Cacophony
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In the heart of this city of 1 million inhabitants, the ancient
fetish market occupies a strategic position. It sits directly between
the city's largest mosque, shrine for a population that is 90 percent
Muslim, and the National Assembly, home of Mali's fragile democracy.
The fetish market is a mysterious place, powerfully symbolic of an
Africa more ancient than electoral politics or even Islam.
Here there is nothing modern, other than the mobile phones of the
witch doctors. This is a realm of magic. For sale are the skins of
leopards, the heads of monkeys and potent spells.
The ...
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