Dogon

Africaintensive agriculturalists
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The Dogon live primarily in the districts of Bandiagara and Douentza in the western African country of Mali. Some Dogon reside in Burkina Faso. The Dogon languages are classified within the Volta-Congo group of the Niger-Congo Language Family. The Dogon settled along the Bandiagara escarpment in the fifteenth or sixteenth century after the breakup of the Mali Empire and for protection against slave raiders. They live in compact, occasionally walled villages built up the sides of the escarpment. The Dogon are primarily agriculturalists, supplemented by gathering.

Identifier
Region
  • Africa
Subregion
  • Western Africa
Subsistence Type
  • intensive agriculturalists
Samples
Countries
  • Mali
  • Burkina Faso
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