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Yoruba language lesson, yoruba riddles

The art and lives of Dogon people in Mali, West Africa, including farming, markets, cooking, school, funeral, mask performances, offerings and prayers at altars, the sigui ceremony, boys circumcision. With detailed narration about the history and culture of the Dogon. Discussion of the research of Marcel Griaule in the 1930s-1950s. Extensive films by Jean Rouch.

The village of Dablo is quite typical of the lively, busy, creative rural farming village of much of West Africa. People spin and weave cotton, brew millet beer, form and fire pottery, smelt and forge iron, dance and sing, and enjoy life.