麻豆社

Militant Islamists in Mali threaten the generations-old tradition of telling stories through human-sized puppets.
Yaya Coulibaly worries puppeteering is becoming too dangerous a job to pass onto his son. He says, "Extremists consider village puppeteers to be the enemies of God".

Picture: Mali's master puppeteer holds one of his creations and his son, Credit: 麻豆社