Dogon
Americannoun
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a member of a group of Indigenous people of the mountains of central Mali.
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the Gur language of the Dogon.
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“They were called cardboard condos,” said Richardson, a Skid Row leader now known as General Dogon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2025
“Self-Portrait After Dogon Bird Mask” features four hues rather than two, and the graphite areas in the black-and-gray drawings are made of free, densely overlapping strokes.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 6, 2022
A member of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Tutsi minority, Dogon fled the 1990s genocide as a child.
From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2021
Other writers and researchers, myself included, believe Bannaka to have been of the Dogon people of Mali, who practiced and preserved their own ancient traditions and learning.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 9, 2021
"And now heed me well for I am known as Dolo Anah and I have instructions from above for the people of the Dogon."
From Black Man's Burden by Reynolds, Mack
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