European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 3, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Few is Ike pm i in. --., Vuew �3ummagazine a Man a fms up a storage auf to Fly from Eta Dogon Village near band got Mali. Starvation in Mali desperate Dogon Farmers by Mort Rosenblum associated press nine Ean years have exacted a heavy Rollon me Doyon african Farmers of such skill that Hoy steal topsoil Back from the wors to grow Vegel abcs atop Barren the Lisl Lime since they sought Refuge on their a Colo Steep of a in Northwestern Luca centuries ago. Dodona in the Region of Bandi Agara. Mai Are leaving in Large numbers to too Lor food and Rork and nomads irom inc North Are moving in the trauma was so great. Amen can research Sarah Breh Symth found last yfi3ilia six to seven Logon fathers a week hanged inc selves from the shame arse my sheif wives and children starve in one Village a woman watched her live Young sons weaken hmm hunger and de of Muste one by one. Then she killed herself. I know of families where nine out erf to sons have gone off to lha says Mitch Michaud. A peace corps forester from no them Maine. They say once a Dogon goes he does a come some do Feluren. But like Solhei Young africans Many forget Pineir traditions in the City. And the elders warn in is tradition the veneration of water and rocks and spirits that binds Ifie Dogon. Ii is impossible to measure the Impact of say Anoumou Diakite Dirc Dor of livestock for the legion. But it is serious. Very serious the Logon fed South from the niger River when Fulani and tuareg herders moved in on heir land As redouble and hiding place they cease the jagged Sandstone Outcrop pints of a dramatic 50-Mie-Long Cliff face. Logons built 55 villages. Some sat on the Edge of a precipice with a spectacular View across the Southern Plain toward Turkina faso formerly known As upper sunday August 3, 1986 Volta others spilled vertically Down the Racks at the Clit base. Trails no wider than a healthy Yont wound Down the chill lace Dogon dislodged the Clem. In ancient pygmy sized people and used then dwellings inc and hollows As burial silos they developed elaborate customs mining daily chores Wilh spin worship padding along i heir Remote paths in distinctive color tul Robes and hats like Woolen crash a camels. Women earned onions tomatoes and Beans to Market in giant a cow to gird. Hal Ancuta on their Heads the Dodona were known Arnm an cd for Iho la Home masks and in acc i of Tuitui a to by riot clod outlaw if eur tight Krill Lami hcs and. Especially. Inn Success a farming i re Cerro conc ions with Little Larm Larj icy a of lord amounts to Fig Sivc Telov Jcj pols in Rocky depressions they farm dirt says Pic Iid Olivier Horn a Swiss go togs working there they Coop in up Iron fiver teds 100 Yards even 1.000 Yards i a in they Mace a 2 Loo layer my l Wilh humus and close in m wish stones. It s very pro Judie Dogon granaries like mud Nuri slow doll houses Sot Rakis Jyon stilts Slor Mitol or years Safe Dom bugs and rain. Tho f vog Lawes earned Cash which they held against emergencies. But now conditions in i he Sahel me Tun Lough even for the Dogon. estimate of Dogon plateau s 165.000 a habitats As Many 35 100.000 May Hove Tony. Mosi go to Richer land to the Koirth. Aundy with other refugees and cities As tar away As Abidian capital of she Ivory coast Sonio Send Back Money and a Tew rerun at sowing limn whal Little food Logons have let is parity approx naked by Oes Perale Fulani and Luis Reg Rio have finally caught up Wilh them again. The nomads escaping even worse Condi Lions in the Tieser to the Iorli find no land in Dogon country and Lew can Larm their last Tew animals cat crops and Jazo the dry Irmgild land at he last Harvest by Cal Smith reported every Farmer found himself Hamstrung with eight or 10 re Lugo a Jomn who re Lusod to leave and insisted on helping Farmers lost a tremendous portion to the he Lois " Trio influx upset a Delicato balance Between Farmers and the herders who once Visi cd Only briefly to Prado animals or Gram. But even without outsiders. Forjone say. We is an Uphill fight Teg ouro situated on Hie Broad pain blow acts the niger Anco the Eft if is Onn of the villages Edh Farmland Flut Trees Cut or firewood Aro fast disappearing. Erosion is turning the parched land Lod Serif to die not have this irrigation system we would Al be gone says a Douro dig Ria. Chief of Teg ouro Village near the somnolent i
