Question
One of these people called Mamoudou Kouyate (“MAH-mah-doo koo-YAH-tay”) was the source of the standard version of a poem which depicts one of these people called Balla Fasséké (“fah-SAY-KAY”). For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these West African bards who preserve poems such as the Epic of Sundiata.
ANSWER: griots (“gree-OHZ”) [or djeli]
[10e] The way griots recite poems in order to pass stories down the generations exemplifies this type of tradition contrasted with written tradition.
ANSWER: oral tradition [accept song tradition or spoken tradition or word forms]
[10h] Oral traditions likely informed the version of this Ethiopian national epic written in Ge’ez (“gay-ezz”) in the 13th century. This epic describes the provenance of the Ark of the Covenant.
ANSWER: Kebra Nagast [or Kebra Negast or The Glory of the Kings]
<Joseph Krol, Literature - World and Miscellaneous> ~20317~ <Editor: Joseph Krol>
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