Sangha, Mali
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Sangha (sometimes spelled Sanga) is a rural commune in the Cercle of Bandigara in the Mopti Region of Mali. The commune contains around 44 small villages and in the 2009 census had a population of 32,513. The administrative centre (chef-lieu) is the village of Sangha Ogol Leye, one of a cluster of at least 10 small villages at the top of the Bandiagara Escarpment.
The commune is known as a centre for Dogon traditional religion with many temples and shrines, and as a base for visitors to the local Dogon villages. Toro So is spoken in the village of Sangha.[2] Most of the ethnographic work by Marcel Griaule was carried out among the Dogon of Sangha.
Gallery
- Multicoloured clothing at Sangha market, 1992
- Women with children and cassava roots at Sangha market, 1992
- A toguna at Sangha, 2006
- View of Sangha, 2007
- Multistoried masks during a dance in Sangha, 2007
- Door of the house of the Hogon in Sangha, Ogol quarter, 2007
See also
- Binou
- Lebe
- Tellem
- Toloy
- Yaboyabo
- Awa Society
References
External links
- Plan de Sécurité Alimentaire Commune Rurale de Sangha 2006-2010 (PDF) (in French), Commissariat à la Sécurité Alimentaire, République du Mali, USAID-Mali, 2006.
- Map of Mopti and Dogon country, ND 30-6, 1:250,000, University of Texas, US Army, 1954.
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