Bambara of the Upper Niger and Their Antelope Dance of the Farming Cults
Along the upper Niger, in the savanna heart of Mali, live the largest of the Mande peoples, farmers and warriors who kept the old gods when their kinsmen turned to
Songhay of the Niger Bend and Their Empire of Gold and Salt
Along the great bend of the Niger River, in the borderland where the Sahel savanna gives way to the sands of the Sahara, there once rose one of the largest
The Oldest City South of the Sahara, and It May Have Had No King: The Story of Jenné-jeno
On the floodplain of the Niger River in Mali stand the mounds of a city that rewrote the history of Africa, the oldest known urban center south of the Sahara,
