MALI
I travelled to Mali in the 90's to shoot this program for the Off the Map television series.

​​Marie-France Landry visits traditional villages in the French-speaking African country of Mali.  Join her as she travels up the Niger River, visits burial caves, and has her future determined by the night moves of a desert fox.

​The original music is not used here due to copyright reasons. Portions of the narration entwined with the original music is also omitted.​​​​​

Marie-France Landry visits traditional villages in the French-speaking African country of Mali.  Join her as she travels up the Niger River, visits burial caves, and has her future determined by the night moves of a desert fox.

Marie-France leaves Bamako and heads towards Dogon Country.
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She tries grinding the maze.

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She learns about pottery making.
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Marie-France reflects on her trip to Mali.

In Bamako, Marie-France visits the local market and tries out her bargaining skills.  
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She attends the weekly market and meets the administrative chief of the Dogon village.​
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Marie-France watches a local man weaving cloth and is remind how lucky she was in living in a modern world.

Marie-France takes a boat ride along the Niger near Mopti.​

THE VANISHING DOGON

Many Indigenous languages are endangered globally and the rate of loss is estimated at one language every two weeks.

​Islamist militants in Mali banned traditional practices that did not adhere to their fundamentalist view of Islam. As a result, the Dogon struggle to maintain their culture and traditional ways of life.

She visits the recycling market.
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Marie-France awakes from a night sleeping on the roof of mud hut.  She watches the locals water their onion fields.

Marie-France visits a burial cave.
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She meets the fox man who predicts the future.
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