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Journey through Mali

Journey through Mali. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNl8kIwj1_k&list=RDKMp_El9ltAs&feature=share Kora music from West African Griot lankandia cissoko. The Journey Begins : Have Your Ticket Ready: Stops along the way: Places along the Trans Sahara Trade Route :

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Journey through Mali

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  1. Journey through Mali http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNl8kIwj1_k&list=RDKMp_El9ltAs&feature=shareKora music from West African Griotlankandiacissoko

  2. The JourneyBegins : Have Your Ticket Ready: Stops along the way: Places along the Trans Sahara Trade Route : Dejenne, Timbuktu, the Niger Valley

  3. First Stop Djenne Archaeological excavations reveal secrets about Mali’s past, beyond the 12th century. No written records exist of Mali’s past, only oral history past down by griots. This is exciting news!

  4. The Great Mosque in Djenne The Great Mosque in Djenneis a central point of Muslim worship, with many schools that spread the faith to the region. It is the largest mud building in the world.

  5. Koran School A Koranic school in Djenné, Mali, where the kids wash off their writing tablets in between lessons. .

  6. Trade Fair Djenne’s weekly market fills the plaza in front of the Great Mosque. People conduct business with their right hands and seated on the ground.

  7. Doing Laundry and More… The BaniRiver in Mali supplies water for many uses. How do you think this is river useful today? What role did it play in the development of the Great Mali empire?

  8. Timbuktu was another city on the trans Sahara trade route along with Djenne. For nearly a thousand years, camel caravans plied the trackless sands of the western Sahara, a barren landscape where arid conditions and searing sun conspire against crops, trees, and even desert grasses. Traveling from well to well, merchants transported the products of West Africa--gold, ivory, salt, and slaves--to the northern reaches of the continent, where they would exchange them for glass, ceramics,and precious stones brought to North Africa from the wider Mediterranean world.

  9. Timbuktu - Selling Salt: 40 Camels from the Mines to the river Today as in the past, salt from the desert remains a source of trade. Five hundred years ago it was as valuable than gold? Why was salt so important for trade?

  10. The Tuaregare a native tribe of Timbuktu Timbuktu is remote, desolate and hard to get to. Miriam is the oldest sister in her family, she is drawing camels. Tuareg men prepare tea

  11. Dogon Cliff Dwellings The Dogon people were the first to settle the Niger Valley. They continue to live in these cliffs as they did hundreds of years ago. They are similar to the Anasazi Indian cliff dwellings in the southwestern United States. They live south of theNiger bend, near the city of Bandiagara, in the Mopti region

  12. Dogon Mask Dogon tribesman must make offerings to the tree spirit before they can be allowed to use the wood of the Togodatree to make their masks that are important in their Dances. Here they are on stilts.

  13. Dogon Sculptures The Dogon are one of the most artistic cultures of Africa. For centuries they have createdrich, powerful sculptures. Here is a grainary door, a stool, and a box.

  14. Faces of Mali

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