Africa in colors.

This French-language book takes its title from the word nyama, which the Dogon people of Mali use to designate the life force that animates every object, fills every human being and, in daily life, evokes ancestral spirits.

This journey in Africa, from the gates of the desert to the shores of the Indian ocean, lets you meet peoples whose cultures are as rich and diverse as the lands they inhabit. Masks, fabrics, reliquaries, harps and drums dialogue with spirits in a relationship where fear and respect are woven together between the world of the living and that of the dead. Nyama is nestled inside these treasures made of wood, beads, gold and ivory.