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  Abdoulaye Diabaté
  Abdoulaye Diabaté is a singer and guitarist who was born to Griot family in Kela, Mali in 1956. He has at least twenty years of experience in contemporary and popular music.
  http://wn.com/Abdoulaye_Diabaté
• Afel Bocoum
  Afel Bocoum (born 1955) is a musician from Mali, noted as a singer and guitarist. He began his career as a member of Ali Farka Toure's group ASCO, and Toure is often regarded as his mentor. Both men come from the town of Niafunke on the River Niger, and are members of the Sonrai people. Bocoum is an agricultural advisor by profession.
  http://wn.com/Afel_Bocoum
• Ahmadou Kourouma
  Ahmadou Kourouma (November 24, 1927 – December 11, 2003) was an Ivorian novelist.
  http://wn.com/Ahmadou_Kourouma
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  Alex Haley
  Alex Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992) was an African-American writer. He is best known as the author of and the co-author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
  http://wn.com/Alex_Haley
• Atongo Zimba
  Atongo Zimba ia a musician and griot from Ghana. His tours in Europe, South America and Africa
  http://wn.com/Atongo_Zimba
• Ba Cissoko
  Ba Cissoko is a Guinean world music band, featuring four members, two of which are playing the traditional Kora harp. The other two band members play percussions and bass, respectively. The sound of the band has been described as "West Africa meets Jimi Hendrix".
  http://wn.com/Ba_Cissoko
• Baaba Maal
  Baaba Maal (born November 12, 1953) is a Senegalese singer and guitarist born in Podor, on the Senegal River. In addition to acoustic guitar, he also plays percussion. He has released several albums, both for independent and major labels. In July 2003, he was made a UNDP Youth Emissary.
  http://wn.com/Baaba_Maal
• Baba Sissoko
  Baba Sissoko (born 8 March 1963 in Bamako, Mali) is a musician (tamani, ngoni, kamalengoni, bala, calabass) and vocalist. Sissoko is a master of the talking drums (the tamani). He is also a jeli by birth.
  http://wn.com/Baba_Sissoko
• Bakari Sumano
  Bakari Sumano (1935 - July 21, 2003) was head of Malian association of griots (wandering poet-musicians) from 1994 until his death.
  http://wn.com/Bakari_Sumano
• Boubacar Traoré
  Boubacar Traoré (born 1942 in Kayes, Mali) is a renowned singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Traoré also goes by the nickname Kar Kar, "the one who dribbles too much" in Bambara, a reference to his soccer playing: "a nickname I got from playing soccer when I was young. People would yell 'Kari, Kari' - dribble, dribble - the name stuck with me".
  http://wn.com/Boubacar_Traoré
• Cheick Oumar Sissoko
  Cheick Oumar Sissoko (born 1945 in San, Mali) is a Malian film director and politician.
  http://wn.com/Cheick_Oumar_Sissoko
• Dan Maraya
  Dan Maraya Jos (born Adamu Wayya in 1946) is a Nigerian Hausa Griot best known for playing the kontigi.
  http://wn.com/Dan_Maraya
• Dimi Mint Abba
  Dimi Mint Abba is Mauritania's most famous musician. She was born Loula Bint Siddaty Ould Abba in 1958 into a low-caste ("iggawin") family specializing in the griot tradition.
  http://wn.com/Dimi_Mint_Abba
• Djeli Moussa Diawara
  Djeli Moussa Diawara, is born in 1962 in Kankan, Guinea. He's a Kora player (Korafola), a composer and singer.
  http://wn.com/Djeli_Moussa_Diawara
• Djelimady Tounkara
  Djelimady Tounkara is a Malian musician and one of the foremost guitarists in Africa.
  http://wn.com/Djelimady_Tounkara
• Foday Musa Suso
  Foday Musa Suso (born in Sarre Hamadi Village, Wuli District, in the Upper River Division of eastern Gambia) is a musician and composer from the West African nation of Gambia. He is a member of the Mandinka ethnic group, and is a jali. His primary instrument is the kora, but he also plays the gravikord and several other instruments.
  http://wn.com/Foday_Musa_Suso
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  Fula people
  Fula or Fulani or Fulbe (the latter being an Anglicisation of the word in their language, Fule) are an ethnic group of people spread over many countries, predominantly in West Africa, but found also in Central Africa and Sudanese North Africa. The countries in Africa where they are present include Mauritania, Senegal, Guinea, The Gambia, Mali, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea Bissau, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Niger, Chad, Togo, the Central African Republic, Ghana, Liberia, and as far as Sudan in the east. Fula people form a minority in every country they inhabit, but in Guinea they represent a plurality of the population (40%).Total population 27 000 000.
  http://wn.com/Fula_people
• Griot (rapper)
  Griot, also known as Brewz Bana, is a rapper from Basel, Switzerland. Formerly known as Mory, he released several records and mix-tapes, until he was finally signed by Universal Records Switzerland. He is the first hardcore rapper from Switzerland.
  http://wn.com/Griot_(rapper)
• Habib Koité
  Habib Koité (born 27 January 1958 in Thiès, Senegal) is a Malian singer, songwriter and guitarist. His supporting cast, Bamada, is a super-group of West African talent, including Kélétigui Diabaté playing balafon.
  http://wn.com/Habib_Koité
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  Hausa people
  The Hausa are a Sahelian people chiefly located in the West African regions of northern Nigeria and southeastern Niger. There are also significant numbers found in regions of Sudan, Cameroon, Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, and Chad and smaller communities scattered throughout West Africa and on the traditional Hajj route across the Sahara Desert and Sahel. Many Hausa have moved to large coastal cities in West Africa such as Lagos, Accra, Kumasi and Cotonou, as well as to countries such as Libya. However, most Hausa remain in small villages, where they grow crops and raise livestock, including cattle. They speak the Hausa language, an Afro-Asiatic language of the Chadic group.
  http://wn.com/Hausa_people
• Jon Hassell
  Jon Hassell (born March 22, 1937) is an American trumpet player and composer. He is known for his influence in the world music scene and his unusual electronic manipulation of the trumpet sound.
  http://wn.com/Jon_Hassell
• Kunta Kinte
  Kunta Kinte (also known as Toby Reynolds) is the central character of the novel by American author Alex Haley, and of the television miniseries Roots, based on the book. Haley described his book as faction - a mixture of fact and fiction. After Haley's book became nationally famous, American author Harold Courlander noted that the section describing Kinte's life was apparently taken from Courlander's book The African. Haley at first dismissed the charge, but later issued a public statement affirming that Courlander's book had been the source, and Haley attributed the error to a mistake of one of his assistant researchers.
  http://wn.com/Kunta_Kinte
• Lamin Saho
  Lamin Saho is a kora player, vocalist and the leader of the band Roots and Culture.
  http://wn.com/Lamin_Saho
• Mamadou Diabaté
  Mamadou Diabaté (born 1975) is a kora player. He began playing quite early in his life, became known as a musician in the area of Mali in which he lived, and has since moved to the United States, recording several albums.
  http://wn.com/Mamadou_Diabaté
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  Mandé peoples
  :Often misused to refer to the Mandinka people, who constitute a branch of the Mandé: Mandinka people
  http://wn.com/Mandé_peoples
• Mansour Seck
  Mansour Seck is a blind Senegalese singer and musician born in Podor, in the north of the country. Best known for his collaboration with life-long friend Baaba Maal, he has also toured and released several solo albums.
  http://wn.com/Mansour_Seck
• Mory Kanté
  Mory Kanté (born March 29, 1950 in Kissidougou, Guinea is an acclaimed vocalist and player of the kora harp. He was born into one of Guinea's best known families of griot (hereditary) musicians. After being brought up in the Mandinka griot tradition in Guinea, he was sent to Mali at the age of seven years – where he learned to play the kora, as well as important voice traditions, some of which are necessary to become a griot.
  http://wn.com/Mory_Kanté
• Muhamman Shata
  Alhaji (Dr) Mamman Shata Katsina (born in 1923 in Musawa village, Katsina State, Nigeria, died on 9 June 1999. He is a well-known Hausa musician in West, East and Central Africa. His vocals are often accompanied by talking drums, known as kalangu. He performed for the Hausa people of Northern Nigeria for more than half a century. He went to the Islamic school as a boy, according to Hausa Muslim tradition.
  http://wn.com/Muhamman_Shata
• N'Faly Kouyate
  '''N'Faly Kouyate''' is a Guinean musician. He is a member of the Mandinka ethnic group of West Africa. His father was the griot Konkoba Kabinet Kouyate, who lived in Siguiri, Guinea.
  http://wn.com/N'Faly_Kouyate
• Nuru Kane
  Nuru Kane (born Papa Nouroudine Kane) is a Senegalese singer/songwriter who plays guitar, bass and guimbri, a three-stringed Moroccan bass in the band Bayefall Gnawa.
  http://wn.com/Nuru_Kane
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  Papa Susso
  Alhaji Papa Susso (Suntu) is a griot or jeli, master kora player, and director of the Koriya Musa Center for Research in Oral Tradition. He was born 29 September, 1947, in the village of Sotuma Sere in the Upper River Division of The Republic of Gambia, West Africa. The Susso family represents a dynasty of traditional oral historians and praise singers. His father taught him to play the kora, a 21-stringed, lute-like instrument invented by Susso’s ancestors, when he was five years old.
  http://wn.com/Papa_Susso
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  Paule Marshall
  Paule Marshall (born April 9, 1929) is an American author. She was born Valenza Pauline Burke in Brooklyn to Barbadian parents and educated at Girls High School, Brooklyn College (1953) and Hunter College (1955). Early in her career, she wrote poetry, but later returned to prose. She was chosen by Langston Hughes to accompany him on a world tour in which they both read their work, which was a boon to her career.
  http://wn.com/Paule_Marshall
• society
  http://wn.com/society
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  Toumani Diabaté
  Toumani Diabaté (born August 10, 1965) is a Malian kora player. In addition to performing the traditional music of Mali, he has also been involved in cross-cultural collaborations with flamenco, blues, jazz, and other international styles.
  http://wn.com/Toumani_Diabaté
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  Wolof people
  The Wolof are an ethnic group found in Senegal, The Gambia, and Mauritania.
  http://wn.com/Wolof_people
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  Youssou N'Dour
  '''Youssou N'Dour' (; born 1 October 1959 in Dakar) is a Senegalese singer, percussionist and occasional actor. In 2004, Rolling Stone described him as, in Senegal and much of Africa, "perhaps the most famous singer alive." He helped develop a style of popular music in Senegal, known in the Serer language as mbalax. He is the subject of the 2008 award-winning documentary film '' directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, which was released theatrically around the world. The film won several awards including the Special Jury Prize at the Middle East International Film Festival.
  http://wn.com/Youssou_N'Dour

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  Bamako
  Bamako, population 1,809,106 (2009 Census, provisional), is the capital and largest city of Mali, and currently estimated to be the fastest growing city in Africa (sixth fastest in the world). It is located on the Niger River, near the rapids that divide the Upper and Middle Niger Valleys, in the southwestern part of the country. Bamako is the nation's administrative center as well as a cercle, with a river port located in nearby Koulikoro, and a major regional trade and conference center. Bamako is the seventh largest West African urban center after Lagos, Abidjan, Kano, Ibadan, Dakar and Accra. Manufactures include textiles, processed meat, and metal goods. There is commercial fishing on the Niger River.
  http://wn.com/Bamako
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  Chad
  Chad (, Tshād), officially known as the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country in central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon and Nigeria to the southwest, and Niger to the west. Due to its distance from the sea and its largely desert climate, the country is sometimes referred to as the "Dead Heart of Africa".
  http://wn.com/Chad
• Diffa
  Diffa is a city and Urban Commune in the extreme southeast of Niger, near that country's border with Nigeria, with a population of 23,600 (2004). It is the administrative seat of both Diffa Region, and the smaller Diffa Department. Diffa marks the eastern end of the paved section of Route Nationale 1, the main east west highway across Niger, although the section between Zinder and Diffa is only partially paved in places. RN 1 continues north to N'guigmi more than 100km. Maïné-Soroa, the other major town of the Region, lies less than 100km to the west of Diffa. The border with Nigeria, at the Nigerian town of Duji, is 5.5 km to the south of Diffa. Diffa Airport lies to the north of the town.
  http://wn.com/Diffa
• Gambia
  http://wn.com/Gambia
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  Guinea
  Guinea (, officially the Republic of Guinea ), is a country in West Africa. Formerly known as French Guinea (Guinée française), it is today sometimes called Guinea-Conakry to distinguish it from its neighbor Guinea-Bissau. Conakry is the capital, the seat of the national government, and the largest city.
  http://wn.com/Guinea
• Ivory Coast
  http://wn.com/Ivory_Coast
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  Mali
  Mali, officially the Republic of Mali (), is a landlocked country in Western Africa. Mali borders Algeria on the north, Niger on the east, Burkina Faso and the Côte d'Ivoire on the south, Guinea on the south-west, and Senegal and Mauritania on the west. Its size is just over 1,240,000 km² with a population more than 14 million. Its capital is Bamako.
  http://wn.com/Mali
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  Mauritania
  Mauritania ( Mūrītāniyā; ; Soninke: Murutaane; Pulaar: Moritani; ), officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a country in North Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean in the west, by Western Sahara in the north, by Algeria in the northeast, by Mali in the east and southeast, and by Senegal in the southwest. It is named after the Roman province of Mauretania, even though the modern state covers a territory far to the southwest of the old province. The capital and largest city is Nouakchott, located on the Atlantic coast.
  http://wn.com/Mauritania
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  Niger
  Niger ( or ; ), officially named the Republic of Niger, is a landlocked country in Western Africa, named after the Niger River. It borders Nigeria and Benin to the south, Burkina Faso and Mali to the west, Algeria and Libya to the north and Chad to the east. Niger covers a land area of almost 1,270,000 km2, over 80 percent of which is covered by the Sahara desert. The country's predominantly Islamic population of just above 15,000,000 is mostly clustered in the far south and west of the nation. The capital city is Niamey.
  http://wn.com/Niger
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  Senegal
  Senegal (), officially the Republic of Senegal (République du Sénégal, ), is a country south of the Sénégal River in western Africa. It owes its name to the river that borders it to the East and North and that originates from the Fouta Djallon in Guinea. Senegal is externally bounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, and Guinea and Guinea-Bissau to the south; internally it almost completely surrounds The Gambia, namely on the north, east and south, exempting Gambia's short Atlantic Ocean coastline. Senegal covers a land area of almost 197,000 km², and has an estimated population of about 14 million.The climate is tropical with two seasons: the dry season and the rainy season.
  http://wn.com/Senegal

• Ablaye Cissokko
• Afel Bocoum
• Ahmadou Kourouma
• Alassane Sarr
• Alex Haley
• Alpha Oulare
• Aly "Alisco" Diabate
• Aristocracy (class)
• Atongo Zimba
• Ba Cissoko
• Baaba Maal
• Baay Bia
• Baba Sissoko
• Backa Niang
• Bakari Sumano
• Balla Fasséké
• Balla Kouyate
• Balla Tounkara
• Bamako
• Bambara people
• bards
• Bawa Abudu
• Boubacar Diabate
• Boubacar Traoré
• Brian Eno
• caste
• central Africa
• Chad
• Cheick Oumar Sissoko
• Daby Balde
• Dagomba
• Dan Maraya
• Dembo Jobarteh
• Diffa
• Dimi Mint Abba
• Djeli Moussa Diawara
• Djelimady Tounkara
• Djimo Kouyate
• Dou Dou N'Diaye Rose
• endogamous
• Epic of Sundiata
• Etran Finatawa
• Foday Musa Suso
• Freestyle Fellowship
• French language
• Fula language
• Fula people
• Gambia
• Gokh-Bi System
• Griot (rapper)
• Guimba the Tyrant
• Guinea
• Habib Koité
• Hausa people
• idiom
• Innercity Griots
• Ivory Coast
• Jon Hassell
• Kasse Mady Diabate
• King Ayisoba
• Kora (instrument)
• Kunta Kinte
• Lamin Saho
• Malamini Jobarteh
• Mali
• Mali Empire
• Mamadou Diabaté
• Mamadou Lynx N'Diaye
• Manding languages
• Mandinka people
• Mandé peoples
• Mansour Seck
• Marabout
• Massa Makan Diabaté
• Mauritania
• Mory Kanté
• Mossi people
• Muhamman Shata
• musician
• N'Faly Kouyate
• Naré Maghann Konaté
• Niger
• Nuru Kane
• oral history
• oral tradition
• Papa Susso
• Pape Kanoutè
• Paule Marshall
• poet
• Portuguese language
• Possible Musics
• Prince Diabaté
• Professor A.L.I.
• Rokia Traoré
• Salieu Suso
• Sanjally Jobarteh
• Seikou Susso
• Senegal
• Serer people
• Sherrifo Konteh
• skald
• social rank
• society
• Songhai people
• Sundjata Keita
• Sura Susso
• The Grio
• Toucouleur
• Toumani Diabaté
• Vieux Diop
• Volker Goetze
• West Africa
• Western culture
• Wolof language
• Wolof people
• Xalam
• Yacouba Sissoko
• Youssou N'Dour

Griot, Raphaël Filmography