GRIOT: A central figure in many West African cultures. Historically, the griot held many functions, including community historian, cultural critic, indigenous artist and collective spokesperson. The ...

Griot: A central figure in many West African cultures. Historically, the griot held many functions, including community historian, cultural critic, indigenous artist and collective spokesperson. The ...

Researchers say role of West Africa’s oral history should be taken more seriously within global academic record ...

For centuries, the history of the West African kingdom of Kaabu, which thrived from the mid-1500s to the 1800s and spanned ...

The name of the initiative has deep cultural significance. In West African traditions, a griot is a tribal elder responsible for preserving and recounting the oral history of the village.

GRIOT has opened to the public at M Shed on Tuesday. The exhibition is put together by six people of colour from Bristol, ...

Singer and storyteller Kaito Winse was born in a small village in the Sourou region of northern Burkina Faso. He was born into a family of griots, a keeper of oral traditions that are steeped in his ...

The clanking of the xylophones rose to fever pitch, then died away. Three griots (West African minstrels )—one in a leather cape adorned with bits of mirror, another carrying a musket ...

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Like a contemporary griot, Kaito Winse weaves realities together, from his native village in Burkina Faso to his life in ...