Variants of names for these people were used in Wise, Why’s, Y’s, whose subtitle also mentions them. In a speech (15[1])about his “eternal” country, one of these people warns against “go[ing] into the dead cities to question the past.” Leo Frobenius collected a story in which a failed king tries to become one of these people (15[1])by sending (15[1])his (15[1])seven sons to die in battle. Another of (-5[1])these people calms (15[1])an owl (15[1])and nine skulls within (15[1])a (*) chamber of human skin. The failed king (-5[1])Gassire (10[1])becomes one of these people (10[1])in a Soninke (10[1])epic. (10[1])The words of one of these people, (10[2])D. (10[1])T. Niane, (10[1])frame a story about (10[1])a prince (10[2])who learns to walk with an (10[2])iron bar. (10[6]-5[1])Soumaoro (10[3])(“SOO-mah-o-ro”) steals one of these people (10[1])from Sundiata, who is accompanied (10[1]-5[1])by a balafon (10[1])and djembe-playing one of these people. (10[4])For 10 points, (10[1])name these West (10[1])African advisers, (10[3])singers, and (10[1])storytellers. ■END■ (10[4])