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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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Northern California	Main	Y	5	22.00	100%	100%	20%
Southern California	Main	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Eastern Canada	Main	Y	12	19.17	100%	67%	25%
Florida	Main	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	7	17.14	100%	71%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	18.75	100%	63%	25%
Upper Mid-Atlantic (1)	Main	Y	11	19.09	100%	82%	9%
Upper Mid-Atlantic (2)	Main	Y	5	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Lower Midwest	Main	Y	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
North	Main	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
Northeast	Main	Y	12	19.17	100%	83%	8%
Northwest	Main	Y	4	22.50	100%	100%	25%
South Central	Main	Y	8	23.75	100%	100%	38%
Southeast	Main	Y	8	20.00	100%	88%	13%
UK	Main	Y	13	18.46	100%	69%	15%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%

Data


FSU	USF	10	10	20
Melbourne A	Melbourne B	0	10	10
UCF B	FIU	10	10	20
UF A	UF B	0	10	10
UF D	ERAU A	0	10	10
UCF A	UF E	0	10	10