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