Life on the edge ; When Gill Harvey visited the Dogon people of Mali, she encountered a world of harsh extremes - and a traditional culture that is increasingly under threat

From: The Independent - London | Date: June 30, 2007| Author: Gill Harvey | Copyright information

Cruising along the Mopti-Bandiagara highway on the back of a Chinese motorbike, dampened turban flying in the wind: life doesn't get much better than this. Arid bush stretches out in all directions, and except for the odd donkey cart, there's no other traffic in sight. At a particularly scenic spot, my Dogon guide pulls in and we clamber off the bike. Glass litters the road. This, Ali tells me, is where a fellow guide was killed by an oncoming truck. I ask if they were close. Very close, says...

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