More than 130 people were killed in an attack on a village in central Mali on Saturday by armed men wearing traditional Dogon hunters' clothing. Gunmen surrounded the village at dawn before ...

Artisans are busy at work in more than a dozen tents demonstrating crafts that reflect Mali's culture, past and present. Mali is famous for its textiles, mat weaving and woodcarving. "My father ...

the Transitional Government wishes to maintain this major cultural event,” said Mali’s Culture Minister Andogoly Guindo. Titled partially in Bambara, the African Biennale of Photography has ...

In northern Mali, religious war has been declared on music. When a rabble of different Islamist groups took control of the region in April, there were fears that its rich culture would suffer.

‘The Dogon’ exhibition, which will run from April 5 to July 24, presents Dogon culture and art history from the 10th century ... between the end of the colonial era and the beginning of Mali’s ...

"You see Mali is the heart of culture in Africa." The country's reputation as a cultural destination has suffered with the rise of Islamist violence in recent years. Northern Mali fell under the ...

Diabate was born in 1965 to a family of griots – storytellers who are the guardians of Mali's traditions and oral histories. "A people without culture is a people who have no soul," Diabate once ...