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Many people will participate and will travel to Kela, a village known for its training of griots, for those who carry on a family’s or village’s oral traditions. The February tour tips its hat to “Visual Griots of Mali,” an exhibition on display through March 11 at UCLA’s Fowler Museum. The show features slice-of-life photos by West African sixth-graders. Among other highlights of the upcoming tour, led by University of London professor Trevor Marchand: a performance of the Sanga mask dancers, dancing and music in the desert with the Taureg, the masquerade of the Bamana and Bozo people in Ségou, the Konboro Mosque in Djénné, said to be the world’s largest mud structure, and ancient illuminated manuscripts in Timbuktu.

I chose this article because I thought it would be interesting to know about this event.

http://www.latimes.com/travel/printedition/la-tr-tc6jan06,0,944131.story?page=2

Moroccan authorities are expected to prosecute a group arrested for organizing a forest picnic to protest a law that forbids Muslims from eating publicly during Ramadan fasting hours, media reports say, but as would be picnickers arrived at the train station in Mohammedia, they were met by a large police squad that searched them and took the names and phone numbers of some of them, according to a statement issued by Human Rights Watch. There were more than 100 police officers, riot police and military personnel had “besieged” the train stations and nearby areas.

Ex President Bush went on a trip to Ghana to host something. He is the host for a state dinner for the president of Ghana John Kufuor. His distaste for formal occasions notwithstanding, a state dinner is the least Bush could do for the African president. He had visited Ghana February in Accra. He hosted a state dinner that was provided by the cast of Lion King.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/presidentbush/2008/09/coming-up-at-th.html

The win for the world cup took place in Egypt. It was in the International Stadium in Cairo to play soccer. It ended 0-0 after 120 tedious minutes before Ghana prevailed in the penalty shootout, 4-3. There was many people who went to watch the winning of the world cup. 67,814 people were not treated to a good soccer game. Hungary is in second place for the World Cup.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2009/10/soccer-ghana-brazil-world-cup.html