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SAHEL FULANI

Exhibition: 20 Oct 2022 – 4 Dec 2022

SAHEL FULANI
Pascal Maitre/ MYOP /Prix Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière en partenariat avec l’Académie des beaux-arts 

The Fulani people number 35 million men and women, spread over some fifteen countries in the Sahelian band. Population growth and global warming are weakening the situation of this thousand-year-old people. Inter-ethnic clashes between nomadic Fulani communities and Dogon, Bambara and Mossi farmers have exploded in recent years. The jihadist radicalization constitutes a major danger for the balance of the entire region. The Fulani people are now at a turning point in their history. Organized around three themes, the festivals, daily life, the conflict and its consequences, this exhibition will offer a testimony on these communities and will try to bring some keys of reading of a region of the world in full geopolitical upheaval.