Flickr just added a very cool, very extensive Places feature. You can search for your hometown, or anyplace, to find photos.

I'm not sure how it works but I come up as one of two "Featured Photographers" on the Bamako, Mali Places page. I suspect it's an automatic thing, perhaps calculated by the number of photos one has on Flickr that are geotagged from a particular place. I think after a couple years of taking pictures in Bamako and posting them on Flickr I might have outdone anyone else!

But if you want to see some truly amazing photos of Mali, check out NYGUS. Absolutely stunning.