“Bogolan cloth is literally made of the earth, forests, rivers and sun of Mali.” ― Kandiora Coulibaly, Groupe Bogolan Kasobane And it was through the harnessing of natural materials ― the iron-rich mud of river-beds, the extracts of leaves, bark, and roots, and the energy of the intense West African sunlight ― that the Bambara …
Mythos
The mystical, cosmological narrative that grounds each culture in an otherwise mysterious universe.
Somewhere in the Futa Tooro region of Senegal, a Tukolor weaver, or mabube, reenacts an ancient ritual. He gathers his loom parts — pulley, wheel, shuttle, beater that have been carved for him and him alone — bringing them back, each and every day, to a framework that does not uniquely belong to him. Although he …