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Born in Guinea, author and playwright Djibril Tamsir Niane is a descendant of griots African oral historians/storytellers. He translated Sundiata, as told by the griot Djeli Mamadou Kouyate, into French under the title Soundjata ou Epoque Mandiginue in 1960. It was later translated into English by G. D. Pickett in 1965.
Map | |
Introduction to the Revised Edition | |
Background Information | |
Geography | |
Religion | |
Society | |
Politics Oral Tradition, Pronunciation and Spelling Who's Who of Characters/Glossary of Places Preface | |
The Story of Sundiata | |
The Words of the Griot Mamadou Kouyatç | |
The First Kings of Mali | |
The Buffalo Woman | |
The Lion Child | |
Childhood | |
The Lion’s Awakening | |
Exile | |
Soumaoro Kantç: The Sorcerer King | |
History | |
The Baobab Leaves | |
The Return | |
The Names of the Heroes | |
Nana Triban and Balla Fassçkç | |
Krina | |
The Empire | |
Kouroukan Fougan or The Division of the World | |
Niani | |
Eternal Mali Author’s | |
Notes | |
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