Griots
Griots
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Griots is the term for African storytellers. Most of the African tradition are still hand down in an oral traditions. The position of griots would be one of great respect.
The storytellers kept alive their village's oral history.
The storytellers kept alive their village's oral history.
The storytellers kept alive their village's oral history.
Giots were the teachers and storytellers.
One of the first storytellers of mankind that we have written works of is Homer the great epic poet of ancient Greece who is famous for two epic poems the Iliad and Odyssey.
They are called griots.
Historians of ancient Africa include figures like Herodotus, often called the "Father of History," who documented aspects of African cultures in his works. Additionally, local historians such as Manetho, who wrote about ancient Egypt, and Ibn Khaldun, a 14th-century scholar, contributed significantly to the historical narrative of the continent. Oral tradition also played a crucial role in preserving African history, with griots and other storytellers passing down knowledge and events through generations.
One would be the thumb piano. There are undoubtedly others.
Entertainers such as singers, tumbler, jugglers, clowns or storytellers who wandered about Europe during the medieval period called were called minstrels and jongulers.