The legendary west African kingdom of Kaabu has long been memorialized in the songs and stories of griots. That's inspired archaeologists to... Griots are having a moment. A griot is a storyteller who ...
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Morocco’s hidden history: archaeology, DNA and carbon dating rewrite the story of the ancient world
New research shows northwest African communities actively shaped connections and exchange between many cultures.
Includes mini-essay, "Out of the African earth." https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001~!499579~!0#focus ...
Based on the symposium: Archaeological and historical dimensions of slavery in East and West Africa in comparative perspective, held Mar. 24-25, 2007. Reviewed by Chapurukha M. Kusimba in Journal of ...
Nino Galissa is a seventh-generation griot in Guinea-Bissau. He composed a song about the new archaeological excavation of Kansala, the legendary capital of a vanished kingdom in that part of West ...
A griot is a storyteller who preserves and passes down history in stories and poems and songs. They’re part of West African culture but the term itself has a bit of colonialist irony in its aura — one ...
Griots are having a moment. A griot is a storyteller who preserves and passes down history in stories and poems and songs. They're part of West African culture — and part of the story that unfolds in ...
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