Griots are really story tellers and sing songs for traders, villagers, kings alike.
Genealogy and family lineages because they were very important to families and kings.
Griots are groups of travelling, professional musicians. They provided music for all sorts of work activities in ancient West Africa. West Africa had a very complex and lively musical culture that would eventually influence music and dance trends globally through African slaves brought to the New World. Some elements of griot organisation survive into how music is performed and valued to this day in the Americas by Afro-Americans.
Probably the best known was Emmiline Pankhurst. Or maybe Emily Davison who threw herself in front of the Kings race horse.
Kings
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Genealogy and family lineages because they were very important to families and kings.
Griots are important because it represented west African culture and society
griots were important in african society because they were african messengers.
Griots helped keep history alive for each new generatio.
they were the repositories or keepers of the family's history
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.
Innercity Griots was created on 1993-04-28.
Poems
The Griots passed on history of West Africa by telling stories
Griots were the teachers in Africa's villages.
The history of the griots not be perfectly accurate because some facts became distorted
Griots were important in West African schooling because they were the keepers of oral history, passing down traditions, cultural knowledge, and history through storytelling and song. Their role contributed to the preservation and transmission of knowledge and values within the community, fostering a sense of identity and continuity across generations.