MALI. Promani village. A bare-breasted maiden crushes millet grain in her mortar. Above her stand the minarets of the village mosque. In their daily life, african Muslims are first African, and then Muslims. Men and women expose freely their body and don't segregate on the basis of sex, ignoring practices imposed in the rest of the Umma (the Muslim world) by Bedouin Arab imperialism. 1988.