"Jesteśmy innej rasy i dlatego nasz dom nie jest dla nich" - piętno wykluczenia w społeczności afrykańskiej

The problem of the complexity of social stratification in Sub-Saharan Africa, leading often to the title "exclusion" is not always noticed in recent literature, either ethnological or socio-political. It goes far beyond the fashionable topics of tribalism, ethnicity, or even the problem of creation of the people in the countries of this continent. That shows like "hidden meaning" of the first phenomenon that does not fit tightly to the theory of the modem state. During a recent survey in Mali among the Dogon community, in years 2008-2009, the problem of exclusion outlined very clearly. It is known as principle of conduct concerning, inter alia, to marry. Today, the "races" among whom are looking for a wife not just blacksmith, artisans groups belonging to scheduled castes (basket-maker, vesicle etc.) but also the descendants of former slaves. Violation of the ban results in finding a group of "hybrids" - hassobe. The common history and community of residence for hundreds of years, as it turns out, does not even today to a homogeneous ethnic group.