These men are skilled craftsmen.

The people who used to be craftsmen and hobbyists are now makers, and they're responsible for massive amounts of innovation.

Most of these immigrants worked as artisans or in small trade, but many also worked in agriculture.

Once there was enough food, some people could devote their lives to being rulers and some to becoming artists or artisans.

75. The activity is designed to equip selected tradesmen with tool kits to support their renewed skills and to promote economic activity and self reliance among the trained artisans.

It's full of Islamic motives,it was made by Islamic artisans and we see that in the lion overpowering a camel, we see it in the caligraphic script along the semicircular bottom and the tree of life in the centre and motif almost identical to that in the dome of the rock in Jerusalem

in Burkina Faso 50. The gold deposit of Essakane, in the province of Oudalan in north east Burkina Faso, was discovered in 1985 by artisanal miners engaged in mining gold by vanning and panning. It is one of a number of gold deposits.