Mali & Niger 2006 > Mali / Burkina Faso / Niger > Mopti

We got off on a tiny island and walked around the village of Kakolodaga. We were greeted by a large crowd of kids. So large and crowded, in fact, that our guides didn't want to go there. They didn't say it quite out right, and it was on the list of places they were supposed to take us, but they had had it with the swarms of beggars who embarrassed their customers.

The island is inhabited by a community of Bozo and a community of Fulani. It's astonishing how many languages ordinary citizens speak.
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