SENUFO BACKGROUND INFORMATION
- Population of ~1.5 million
- Links the western Sudanic area with the Guinea coast to the South
- The Senufo: agriculturalists whose history of migration brought them to the Ivory Coast
- The term "Senufo" refers to a linguistic group of 30 related dialects
- Many Senufo speaking communities are still focussed around agriculture
- Commonly seen in Senufo art are abstracted images of human and animal forms