Sangha, Mali

Sangha
Commune
Sangha Location in Mali
Coordinates: 14°27′54″N 3°18′22″W
Country	Mali
Region	Mopti Region
Cercle	Bandiagara Cercle
Population  (2009 census)
• Total	32,513
Time zone	UTC+0 (GMT)

Sangha (sometimes spelled Sanga) is a rural commune in the Cercle of Bandigara in the Mopti Region of Mali. The commune contains around 44 small villages and in the 2009 census had a population of 32,513. The administrative centre (chef-lieu) is the village of Sangha Ogol Leye, one of a cluster of at least 10 small villages at the top of the Bandiagara Escarpment.

The commune is known as a centre for Dogon traditional religion with many temples and shrines, and as a base for visitors to the local Dogon villages. Toro So is spoken in the village of Sangha. Most of the ethnographic work by Marcel Griaule was carried out among the Dogon of Sangha.

Gallery

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  Multicoloured clothing at Sangha market, 1992
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  Women with children and cassava roots at Sangha market, 1992
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  A toguna at Sangha, 2006
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  View of Sangha, 2007
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  Multistoried masks during a dance in Sangha, 2007
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  Door of the house of the Hogon in Sangha, Ogol quarter, 2007

See also

• Binou
• Lebe
• Tellem
• Toloy
• Yaboyabo
• Awa Society

External links

• Plan de Sécurité Alimentaire Commune Rurale de Sangha 2006-2010 (PDF) (in French), Commissariat à la Sécurité Alimentaire, République du Mali, USAID-Mali, 2006.
• Map of Mopti and Dogon country, ND 30-6, 1:250,000, University of Texas, US Army, 1954.

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