Mali & Niger 2006 > Mali / Burkina Faso / Niger > Dogon Country

Our guides showed us around the cliffside houses. I think that the tourist industry must be near the top tier of employment in West Africa. If you can't make a living, your choices are diaspora, either to the south to work on plantations, or north to Morocco and hopefully bussing tables in Europe, accented with occasional suburban Parisian riots. I can see the guy in this photo throwing a brick, can't you? Will it be a cartoon of Mohammed or a gay couple that sets him off? (The photo isn't representative, actually he is a nice person and will with luck grow up to manage a guest house and subscribe philosophically to taxi-driver-libertarian.)
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