Word: malis
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...rich soil. Olga Haptemariam acquired it in Eritrea's war-scarred port city of Massawa when she laid down 2,000 birr for a license to open a building-supply store. The villagers of N'Tjinina are finding it as they prepare for the solemn experience of voting in Mali's first local elections. Sarah Galloway Hage-Ali is spreading hope in Ghana, where she purchased the country's sole manufacturer of sanitary napkins in 1994 and launched a feminine-hygiene crusade...
...African renaissance. A grand word, it turns out, for the slow, fragile, difficult changes that are giving the continent a second chance. But the description fits. Out of sight of our narrow focus on disaster, another Africa is rising, an Africa that works: the Africa of Mozambique and Mali and Eritrea and Ghana, of South Africa and Uganda, Benin and Botswana, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Tanzania...
...room, as ornately carved chests line one side. A mauve and gold colored brocade ottoman sits on the oriental rug. The cane and glass coffee table offers a ceramic bowl simply placed in the center. In one corner of the room hangs an authentic, carved ceremonial mask from Mali used in coming of age ceremonies. A red and gold Chinese kite decorates another corner...
Francois-Xavior Bagnoud, the son of Countess Albina du Boisrouvray, was a Swiss pilot who died in a rescue mission in Mali, West Africa...
...took Beckwith and Fisher 19 years to win permission to photograph the six-week-long Dogon Dama funeral ceremony in Mali, in which bodies are wrapped in cloths and hauled 300 ft. up a sheer cliff face to burial caves that have been in use since the 15th century. To get a shot of the interior of one of those caves, the duo had to be lowered from the top of the cliff by means of ropes and handmade ladders...