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Often young men go to the cities to find jobs, while the woman stay to raise the children and farm the land. The men return to visit and share what they have earned. One way for West Africans to adapt, change, and keep their family ties strong, is to pass on their history, values, and traditions to their children. They do this through storytelling, usually spoken rather than written. A storyteller is called a griot passes this oral tradition from one generation to the next.
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Cause they do look similar
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