{"id":3661,"date":"2008-01-10T19:27:20","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T03:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willdoherty.org\/wordpress\/?p=3661"},"modified":"2024-09-21T21:58:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T21:58:11","slug":"festival-in-the-desert-essakane-mali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/?p=3661","title":{"rendered":"Festival in the Desert, Essakane, Mali"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The eighth annual Festival in the Desert (Festival au Desert) took place in Essakane, Mali, on January 10-12, 2008. I made it late the first day, stayed the second day, and had to leave really really early the morning of the last day. So, I missed my most anticipated musician playing at the festival: Tiken Jah Fakoly. I got to experience lots of really good music though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One apparently traditional event at the festival is camel racing. At the same time, with a bunch of jostling in the crowd, a ceremony of women took place, perhaps a form of “dressage” to show off their finery for potential spouses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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