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In the village of Sangha,
onion bulbs are smashed and shaped into balls that are dried in the sun.
The onion balls are trucked
as far away as the Ivory Coast to be sold as an ingredient for sauces.
Introduced by the French
in the 1930s, onions are the Dogon's only cash crop.
Millet & Onions
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