HIST 460 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Bride Price, Griot, Niger River
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Gender in medieval national epics the 13th century rise of mali. Male ancestors of the keita clan of mali: ancestor lahilatoul kalabi keita was the first black prince to make the pilgrimage to. The griot telling us this history: mamoudou kouyate, as recorded by guinean prof. It is i, djeli mamoudou kouyate, son of bintou kouyate and djeli kedian. Kouyate, a master in the art of eoloquence: since time immemorial the kouyates have been in the service of the keita princes of. Mali; we are vessels of speech, we are the repositories which harbor secrets many centuries old. Royal griots: charismatic experts, influencing political leaders by their words. Whoever knows the history of a country can read its future: other peoples use writing to record the past, but this invention has killed the faculty of memory among them. They do not feel the past anymore, for writing lacks the warmth of the human voice.
