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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