Mali Activity

Mali is a country in West Africa. It is full of different places: some are sandy, others are green; some are mountainous, others are flat; some are crowded, others are completely empty.

Many different people live in these places: farmers, fishermen, cattle herders, nomads, market sellers, people from the towns and people from the villages.

In the past Mali was a French colony. A colony is a country that has been taken over by a different country. Nowadays Mali is a free country again. Many people are working hard to improve their lives, and sort out problems left from the past.

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Thanks to DEC (Development Education Centre, Birmingham) for material on this page from "Where camels are better than cars - a locality study in Mali, West Africa for Key Stage 2". Photographs by John Snyder.

The full pack is available from DEC, Gillett Centre, 998 Bristol Road, Selly Oak, Birmingham, B29 6LE, England.

This site is under construction. We will update it regularly. GLO is written by Alison Norris from ODEC and Anne Strachan from Manchester DEP. Please send suggestions about the site to Alison.