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    Africa cannot brag neither an abundance of monuments of an antiquity or a Middle Ages, nor corpulent herds of elephants and antelopes in the reserves. However, the majority of the countries of region has managed to save alive culture of peoples. Here go « to see people », and, in a literal sense.
    And these people have created the mighty medieval states Ghana, Songay, Mali, Great Benin, Dahomey, Ashanti. On coast of Atlantic ocean forts of Portuguese, Dutch, German and English colonizers standed.
    Most of all these constructions, many of which are transformed into museums, remained in Ghana. In Mali, in a valley of Niger of city Tombouctou, Jenne, Segou keep still samples of original medieval architecture though cities these everyone will more strongly be worn out by sand of the coming Sahara.
    In Mali there is an area named « the Country of dogons». Dogons - people storing ancient unique knowledge. Ufologists speak, that they have received this knowledge from aliens. Well whence still they could learn, that Sirius has satellite and to calculate the period of its reference around  the main star?
    Now the countries with the most advanced tourist infrastructure in the Western Africa are Gambia, Ghana, Cameroon and Nigeria, however last is constantly shaken by interconfessional and interethnic collisions, and therefore wishing to see at products of well-known bronze moulding of " Great Benin » it is necessary to watch closely political news from this country before going somewhere.

Ebony sculpture, 'Lovers Kiss'
Bodies intertwine as lips meet in a passionate kiss. Yet love, more than passion, emanates from this elegant statuett... Read more...