Annual plastering of the Great Mosque of Djenné. By UN Mission in Mali / Sophie Ravier, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr Learn more: Djenné's celebrations The Hare Festival After the plastering of the ...

DJENNE, Mali — Kola Bah used to earn a living as a tour guide in Mali's historic city of Djenné, once a center of Islamic learning known for the sprawling mud-brick mosque that has been on the ...

a key ritual that maintains the integrity of the Great Mosque of Djenne in the center of the country.

Captured by the Songhai emperor Sonni 'Ali in 1468, it developed into Mali's most important trading center during the 16th century. The city thrived because of its direct connection by river with ...

Inhabited since 250 B.C., Djenné became a market centre and an important link in the trans-Saharan gold trade. In the 15th and 16th centuries, it was one of the centres for the propagation of Islam.

Through the story of a mason in Djenne, Komusa Tenapo, and his family, this documentary examines an African tradition of mud architecture in Mali. The environmental genius of these ancient ...

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