Regarding The War In Mali: Are Mali's Dogon People Really Aliens From Sirius?

“Suggestions that aliens from Sirius had imparted astronomical knowledge to the Dogon, created a modern myth and raised the tribe to cult status among UFO/ancient astronaut enthusiasts. Also, whites who rejected the African origins of mankind, could now claim their ancestors were from Sirius! As I have opined previously in this column, the whole Dogon business is hokum-perpetrated, perhaps, to help sustain the market for esoteric genre of books and film.”
 — J.K. Obatala of Nigeria’s The Guardian addresses the modern mythology of Mali’s amazing Dogon people and their supposed ties to a race of fish-headed space monsters from a planetary system around Sirius B.

Photo by Martha de Jong-Lantink.