Griot Fireside

Stories, interviews and living memory, credited to the people who carry them.

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VideoAl-Sirah al-Hilaliyyah: the epic of the Bani HilalEgypt’s great sung epic of the Bani Hilal migration, performed by poets with the rabab since the 14th century.
VideoThe Sosso-Bala: the balafon of the griots of NyagassolaA sacred balafon in Guinea, guarded by the Kouyaté griots, that carries the epic of Sunjata, founder of the Mali Empire.