At the last day of our trip in Mali (there are more portraits from Mali in the queue) we visited Bamako. Bamako was not too attractive for us, we had to look for some bar which we found in the garden of the museum.

We ordered some beer and saw a man wearing a tie. That was the only tie we saw during our 28 days visit to Mali. I guessed the man was the director of the museum since from a distance he just looked most representative person around.

After a while the man came to us and we started to chat.

When we saw him closer we realized that this probably was not the director of the museum. He told us he was living on the country side and was visiting Bamako.

He explained us that he was 40 and just got married with his 4th wife. To make things clear, he still was married with the other 3. For us a strange thing but in West Africa this is not too strange, after all there is just a few social insurance and before getting old it is important to have a lot of children who can take care when being old.

We shared some beer, I took these portraits and we had an interesting conversation that afternoon.