History of the DOGON people.

Almost 3,000 years ago, some ethnic tribes left the Nile valley to dwell in the hilly regions of West Africa, including the DOGON people. This captured the tribal nationality's traditional way of life, which is now a part of Mali 🌲🌱. 

The Bandiagara area was home to the Dogan people's early settlements. In the past, the Dogon people shown exceptional talent in a variety of artistic fields (such as architecture, mining, and ancient science, particularly astrology and medicine), much like the Igbo Ukwu civilization.

The earliest known textiles in sub-Saharan Africa include clothing discovered in the Tellem caves of the Bandiagara region of Mali (11th century or earlier) and flax fibre fragments of/from Igbo Ukwu (9th century AD)," according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

"All of these artistic expressions seem to be fully developed in their styles; none of them seem to be beginnings of any kind."

Beginning in 3100 BCE, the Dogon left the Nile civilization and wandered across the desert before settling in the Sudan (western Africa). Due to the attacks of nomadic groups from western Asia, which started in the Nile delta and moved westward towards Leptis Magna in what is now Libya and Algeria, coastal regions of North Africa were overrun. 

Around this period, the enormous sea that was roughly the size of France, near the current Sahara, began to dry up, which led to instability and roving groups that roamed around restlessly rather than settling down.

Historian Chancellor Williams claims that "these tremendous victories of the w.hite men were not achieved by conquest" in "The destruction of black civilization," a book that every African should read. It was attained by accident, on the side of a race that was more concerned with the here and now than the future." 

For the majority of the African tribal groups that were scattered from the Nile valley, not much has changed.