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Mali is a landlocked West African country where the Niger River bends through savanna toward the Sahara. Wealth of the medieval Mali Empire, famed after Mansa Musa's 1324 pilgrimage, left Timbuktu libraries and praise-singers called griots, while French rule and northern conflict put that heritage under strain. Timbuktu portrays the occupation, while Bamako stages a trial of global lenders in the capital. Open Mali on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
Open Mali on the StoryTerra map10 famous stories set in Mali
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Browse 7 books and 11 movies set in Mali.
Timbuktu
A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives -- which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith -- abruptly disturbed. A look at the brief…
4 latas
To find Joseba a dying friend and see him reunite with his daughter Ely two old friends Jean Pierre and Tocho embark with her on a road trip through the Sahara desert from Spain to Mali.
Mali Twist
Mali 1960. The youth of Bamako dance the twist to rock and roll music newly imported from the West and dream of political renewal. Samba a young socialist falls for spirited Lara during one of his missions to the bush.…
Bamako
Caught in the stranglehold of debt and structural adjustment Africa is fighting for its survival. In the face of disaster representatives of African society bring an action against international financial institutions.…
Sahara
1996, Egypt. Searching for a treasure on the Nile, DIRK PITT thwarts the attempted assassination of a beautiful U.N. scientist investigating a disease that is driving thousands of North Africans into madness,…
Shara
The Aso family live in the old town of Nara. One Day Kei one of the Aso's twin boys suddenly disappears. Five years later seventeen-year old Shun the remaining twin is an art student. He now has to move forward with his…
Leo Africanus
"I, Hasan the son of Muhammad the weigh-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of a barber and baptized at the hand of a pope, I am now called the African, but I am not from Africa, nor from Europe, nor…
The Pilot
A drone pilot in Mali whose wife and daughter are kidnapped by terrorists. They will be executed if he doesn't derail the capture by his team of the head of a jihadist network.
Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles To Timbuktu
Relates the tale of the author's journey of more than six hundred dangerous miles on the Niger River from Mali's Old Segou to Timbuktu, enduring tropical storms and the heat of the Sahara to fulfill her goal of buying…
Kinmoza the Movie: Thank You!!
Time flies when you're having fun and it seems like only yesterday that Shinobu Omiya was nervously waiting for her friend Alice Cartelet to arrive from England to study at Shinobu's school in Japan. Now in their third…
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