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Art & Culture
Image courtesy wikicommons : figure found
Metropolitan Museum of Art,New York.
at Djenné-Djenno still being held at the
Ancient to Medieval Mali and Niger:
Djenné-Djenno sister city of Timbuktu
By PD Lawton | 25 March 2024
ounded in the third century BCE, the Vol 111, edited by Norman Yoffee:
city of Djenné-Djenno covered 33 hect-
Fares. It was abandoned around 1400 CE “What the site does provide in ample volume
most likely due to drought inducing climate is evidence of multiple occupations, multiple
change. It is situated along the Niger River manufacturing areas and multiple “identity
Valley in Mali and is thought to be the oldest groups” as indicated by a great diversity of
urbanized site in West Africa. contemporaneous burial practices. “
As cited in The Cambridge World History, What is so peculiar about Djenné-Djenno is
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