Bandiagara
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| Coordinates | 14 ° 21 ′ N , 3 ° 37 ′ W | ||
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| Country | Mali | ||
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| ISO 3166-2 | ML-5 | ||
| height | 388 m | ||
| Residents | 25,564 (2009) | ||
 The house of the Toucouleurs in Bandiagara
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Bandiagara is a city in the Mopti region in the West African state of Mali . It is the capital of the district of the same name . Bandiagara is above the rock of Bandiagara ( Falaise de Bandiagara ), a sandstone - steep step in the country of Dogons , the south over a length of 200 km almost vertically and up to 250 meters deep in the Gondo level drops. Bandiagara County comprises 21 parishes, including Sangha parish , which is considered the center of Dogon culture. The city of Bandiagara has 25,564 inhabitants (2009 census). Before the Dogon lived there, the area was inhabited by the Tellem and Toloy . Many buildings are reminiscent of the Tellem culture.
In the early 2000s, locals took tourists through the heights of the Bandiagara to visit the Dogon villages. Various paths lead over the hills. The "mutual experiences of foreignness of tourists and locals in the land of the Dogon (Mali)", around the Falaise de Bandiara , have been investigated by German educators since around 2000. Due to the proximity to the north of Mali ( Azawad ), which has been controlled by the Islamist group Ansar Dine since April 2012, tourism came to a standstill.
sons and daughters of the town
- Amadou Hampâté Bâ (1900 / 01–1991), writer and ethnologist
- Oumar Ba (1906–1964), politician
- Yambo Ouologuem (1940-2017), writer
- Young Deenay (born 1979), rapper
Web links
- Entry in the UNESCO World Heritage List (English)
- Entry in the UNESCO World Heritage List (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b INSTAT: Results of the 2009 census ( Memento from February 6, 2011 on WebCite ) (PDF; 957 kB)
- ↑ See Schäfer, A. (2011): Irritierende Strangeness. Educational research as discourse analysis. Paderborn (blurb)
- ↑ Research project of the University of Bayreuth near Bandiagara - Effects of the political upheavals ( Memento from December 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Scenes from Mali, Aug./Sept. 2012, 20-minute Powerpoint presentation (English)