High Society

 And on the Djenne front all quiet as usual. I have been seen hobnobbing at the inauguration of Maitre Baber Gano’s new residence: a blue cement palace outside the town’s perimeter, where one is allowed to build in ciment. The centre of town only allows traditional mud buildings, according to UNESCO’s world heritage rules. Le Tout Djenne was there. I am sporting a new MaliMali creation: the Bozo Dress with our new Pirogue Pattern.

Maitre Gano is a high-flying Bamako lawyer with political aspirations. His party is the RPM, led by IBK: Ibrahim Boubakar Keita, probably the only politician left from the ATT era who will be able to  present himself with any credibility at the forthcoming elections which have been promised at the end of July. Gano was a candidate in the Djenne deputy elections a few years ago, but lost. (see blog July 2007). And here you see me with the Maitre himself. The curtains are a fine example of contemporary Malian interior decoration.