General Dogon’s practice of creating custom bikes as art pieces began with a shopping cart. It was sometime in the vicinity of 2012 and the activist artist, an organizer for the Los Angeles Community ...

Dogon, the newest project by acclaimed Nigerian-American chef Kwame Onwuachi, is welcoming Martel Scott to its team. (Courtesy Scott Suchman) Yes, Martel Stone has seen “The Bear,” and yes, he says ...

The esoteric Dogon graphic sign systems are well documented in the literature as preserves of adult men. But what of women's signs? Brett-Smith analyzes "the symbolism and aesthetics of the white, ...

Julius Hemphill's "Dogon A.D." — the 15-minute piece, and the album that's named for it — was one of the startling jazz recordings of the 1970s, a rethinking of possibilities open to the avant-garde.

Some three decades ago I became aware of the Dogon people through a book called “Conversations with Ogotemmelli,” by Marcel Griaule. For me, this interesting culture always symbolized the great ...

Mali’s Dogon Country can feel like a deliciously African evocation of the remote. Mali’s Dogon Country can feel like a deliciously African evocation of the remote. Dogon villages have no electricity.

Dogon land in south-east Mali is a "sanctuary to be penetrated only by those who have undergone initiation rites". The magic of Dogon country is its inaccessibility, which has protected the ...

A DRY, biting wind swept in from the Sahara as my young guide, David Dolo; my driver, Mahmadou; and I followed a local animist priest up a rocky trail in Dogon country in central Mali. Below us, the ...

How to make the same out of something different? The attempt to answer this is based on a study of the western part of the region inhabited by the Dogon in Mali. Dogon country is an 'inbetween'; ...