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Question

Djibril Tamsir Niane introduced the culture hero Sundiata to the West with his French translation of a tale told to him by one of these people named Mamadou Kouyaté. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name these West African oral historians associated with telling stories and playing instruments like the kora.

ANSWER: griots (“GREE-ohs”) [or griottes; or djeli; or gewel; or jeliw; or jaliw; prompt on musicians or singers or bards]

[10e] Sundiata and Mwindo are Malian and Congolese protagonists in African examples of these works. These long narrative poems typically deal with heroic and supernatural feats.

ANSWER: epics [or epic poems; accept Epic of Sundiata; accept Mwindo epic or Epic of Mwindo]

[10h] The “buffalo woman” Sogolon who mothers Sundiata has this last name. A French-speaking novelist with this surname reworked Wuthering Heights into the novel Windward Heights and discussed the slave trade in her novel Ségou.

ANSWER: Condé [accept Maryse Condé; accept Sogolon Condé or Sukulung Conté or Sukulung Katuma or Sogolon Kédjou; accept Ganda]

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California	Main	Y	5	22.00	100%	100%	20%
Canada	Main	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Florida	Main	Y	12	19.17	100%	67%	25%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	17.14	100%	71%	0%
Midwest	Main	Y	8	18.75	100%	63%	25%
North	Main	Y	11	19.09	100%	82%	9%
Northeast	Main	Y	5	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
South Central	Main	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	19.17	100%	83%	8%
UK	Main	Y	4	22.50	100%	100%	25%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	23.75	100%	100%	38%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	8	20.00	100%	88%	13%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	13	18.46	100%	69%	15%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%

Data


Stanford C	Berkeley C	10	10	0	20
Berkeley A	Berkeley E	10	10	10	30
Berkeley D	Berkeley F	10	10	0	20
Berkeley B	Stanford B	10	10	0	20
Stanford A	UCSC	10	10	0	20
Claremont Scripps	UCSD Vices and Virtues	10	10	0	20
McGill C	McMaster C	10	10	0	20
Toronto B	McMaster A	10	10	10	30
Queen's A	Toronto K	0	10	0	10
Toronto A	Waterloo	10	10	10	30
Toronto F	Guelph A	0	10	0	10
Toronto D	Toronto G	10	10	0	20
Toronto E	Toronto H	0	10	0	10
Toronto I	McMaster B	0	10	0	10
McGill A	Toronto J	10	10	0	20
Carleton	Toronto Metropolitan	10	10	0	20
Ottawa	Guelph B	10	10	10	30
McGill B	Queen's B	10	10	0	20
FSU	USF	10	10	0	20
UF A	UF B	0	10	0	10
UF D	ERAU A	0	10	0	10
UCF A	UF E	0	10	0	10
Pitt B	CWRU A	10	10	0	20
CWRU B	Kenyon B	10	10	0	20
OSU C	CWRU C	10	10	0	20
MSU A	Pitt C	0	10	0	10
MSU B	Pitt A	0	10	0	10
OSU A	Kenyon A	10	10	0	20
OSU B	OSU D	10	10	0	20
Melbourne A	Melbourne B	0	10	0	10
North Carolina A	Clemson B	10	10	10	30
Liberty A	North Carolina C	0	10	0	10
NC State	Liberty B	10	10	0	20
North Carolina B	Virginia B	10	10	10	30
Clemson A	Roanoke	10	10	0	20
Tennessee B	James Madison	0	10	0	10
Tennessee A	Tusculum	0	10	0	10
Virginia A	South Carolina B	10	10	0	20
UCF B	FIU	10	10	0	20
George Mason A	George Washington A	10	10	0	20
Georgetown B	UMBC A	10	10	0	20
Johns Hopkins A	Georgetown A	10	10	0	20
Johns Hopkins C	Johns Hopkins B	10	10	0	20
NYU A	Maryland A	10	10	10	30
Maryland B	George Mason C	10	10	0	20
Maryland C	George Mason B	10	10	0	20
NYU B	Catholic University	10	10	0	20
Notre Dame E	Maryland D	0	10	0	10
VCU A	Penn A	10	10	0	20
Columbia B	Vassar A	10	10	0	20
Rutgers B	Lehigh B	10	10	0	20
Rowan A	Columbia C	10	10	0	20
Lehigh A	Rutgers C	10	10	0	20
Swarthmore A	Princeton A	10	10	0	20
George Washington B	Penn B	0	10	0	10
Missouri A	WashU D	10	10	10	30
WashU A	Truman State	10	10	0	20
Missouri B	WashU B	10	10	0	20
Macalester B	Minnesota C	10	10	0	20
Nebraska	Macalester A	10	10	0	20
St. Thomas	Wisconsin	0	10	0	10
William Woods	WashU C	0	10	0	10
Iowa State	Minnesota A	10	10	0	20
Carleton	Minnesota B	10	10	0	20
Tufts A	Brown B	0	10	0	10
Williams	MIT B	10	10	0	20
Brandeis Lloyd George	Yale B	10	10	0	20
Brandeis Orlando	Amherst B	10	10	0	20
BC A	Bowdoin B	0	10	0	10
Tufts B	BC B	10	10	0	20
BU	Yale A	10	10	0	20
Cornell-UG	Brandeis Clemenceau	10	10	0	20
Brandeis Wilson	Bowdoin A	10	10	0	20
Dartmouth	Brown C	10	10	0	20
Harvard	Amherst A	10	10	0	20
MIT A	Brown A	10	10	10	30
Alberta	British Columbia A	10	10	0	20
British Columbia C	British Columbia B	10	10	0	20
Washington B	British Columbia D	10	10	10	30
Alberta B	Northwestern C	10	10	0	20
Arizona State A	Tulsa	10	10	0	20
Iowa	Arizona State B	10	10	0	20
Northwestern B	Ohio	10	10	0	20
Northwestern A	Rose State	10	10	10	30
Texas A	UTD B	10	10	10	30
Texas B	UTD A	10	10	10	30
UCO	McGill D	10	10	0	20
Washington A	Simon Fraser	10	10	0	20
Auburn A	Alabama B	10	10	10	30
Auburn B	Alabama A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech C	Sewanee A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech D	Bruin A	10	10	0	20
Huntsville A	Mississippi State A	10	10	0	20
Huntsville B	Georgia Tech A	0	10	0	10
Vanderbilt B	UAB A	10	10	0	20
Vanderbilt A	Georgia Tech B	10	10	0	20
Oxford A	Cambridge C	10	10	0	20
Birmingham A	LSE A	10	10	0	20
Cambridge D	Bristol B	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Bristol A	10	10	10	30
Southampton A	Edinburgh A	10	10	0	20
Imperial A	Sheffield A	10	10	0	20
City St George's A	Imperial C	10	10	0	20
Warwick A	Manchester A	10	10	10	30
Oxford B	Edinburgh B	10	10	0	20
Sheffield B	Durham A	0	10	0	10
Lancaster A	Southampton B	0	10	0	10
Warwick B	Cambridge B	0	10	0	10
Cornell-DII	Binghamton A	10	10	0	20
Binghamton B	ESF	0	10	0	10
RIT A	RIT B	0	10	0	10
Rochester	Syracuse	0	10	0	10
LSE B	Durham B	10	10	0	20