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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: Â鶹Éç