Bassari, Fula and Bedik Cultural Landscapes

Bassari Country: Bassari, and Bedik Cultural Landscapes is situated in the south east of Senegal. It includes three geographic areas: the Bassari – SalĂ©mata area, the Bedik – Bandafassi area and the Fula – DindĂ©fello area, each with its specific morphological traits. The Bassaris, Fulas and Bediks peoples settled from the 11th to the 19th centuries and developed specific cultures and habitats symbiotic with their surrounding natural environment. The Bassari landscape is marked by terraces and rice paddies, interspersed with villages, hamlets and archaeological sites.

Fula and Bedik cultural landscapes
Continent: Africa
Country: Senegal
Category: Cultural
Criterion: (III)(V) (VI)
Date of Inscription: 2012

Villages of the Bediks

The villages of the Bediks are formed by dense groups of huts with steeped thatched roofs. Their inhabitants' cultural expressions are characterized by original traits of agro-pastoral, social, ritual and spiritual practices, which represent an original response to environmental constraints and human pressures. The site is a well preserved multicultural landscape housing original and still vibrant local cultures.

Heritage Fula and Bedik cultural landscapes
Fula and Bedik cultural landscapes

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Natural environmental constraints and anthropic pressures

The property and its associated cultural expressions bear outstanding witness to the cultural specificity and interaction between the Bassari, Bedik, and Fula people in agro-pastoral, social, ritual and spiritual practices, and represent an outstanding, original response to natural environmental constraints and anthropic pressures, so as to use wisely the limited resources of the area.

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