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Frederick Lamp the world leading authority on the Baga, arrived to guinea in 1985 and conducted the main balk of his field research during 1985-7. Dr Lamp arrived to Conakry immediately after the passing away of Seku Toure in 1984 and the coup of 1985 which installed Lansale Conte in power for the next 25...

Bamana in General does not refer to a particular tribe but denotes certain common religious representations and practices such as the Jow – rites of passage, age groups Ntomo and Kore, Power associations and so forth – the French form “Bambara” is a name given from Outside – by Fula, Arab or Berber informants was...

In early 1968 Bill Siegmann – the Legendary Brooklyn Museum African art curator requested the Liberian authorities a permit to tour the Bassa county, finding out that his only predecessor was the author Graham Green in the thirties. This highlights the total lack of study regarding Liberia’s second biggest clan Comprising approx 16% of the...

Till early 20th century the hunger for slaves was so great that by the nineteen twenties –the Dogons, considered by their Muslim neighbors as potential booty,have been reduced to Less than hundred thousand – 81,862 according the 1921 census. the 600m high Bandiagara escarpment incoporation into the newly formed French Sudan proved hugely beneficial to...

In Liberia – the Grebo were branded as reclusive, violent and worrisome. even today their villages are shunned and considered as of limits to all, these villages which are usually located near the coast, on barrier beaches with brackish lagoons and mangrove swamps on one side, and the ocean on the other are still nearly...

One of the most enduring images of west African art is that of a sowei Official, wearing a bondo helmet mask and cladded totally in a black voluminous raffia costume. In these usually staged photographs she is accompanied like a brooding hen by her young novices which are covered with kaolin (white chalk found in...