The West African story telles are called griots. The memorizes stories about the past and tell it to as many people as possible and make sure that they can tell thse stories to the younger generations. Mansa Musa took several griots to come on his amazing hajj for them to tell it to other people.
Groits where important because West Africa did't have a writing system. So they did'nt have a way of passing along stories about the past. Being a griot would be difficult because you would have to memorize every detail and make sure that you can tell everything to the next person. The passing of sories of the past by stories is called oral history. Becuse they were so important , many kings like Mansa Musa took them on important trips so that the groits can tell other people how important their ruler is, to make him more popular. They also pasted ro proverbs or sayings of wisdom or truths.they are very
Groits where important because West Africa did't have a writing system. So they did'nt have a way of passing along stories about the past. Being a griot would be difficult because you would have to memorize every detail and make sure that you can tell everything to the next person. The passing of sories of the past by stories is called oral history. Becuse they were so important , many kings like Mansa Musa took them on important trips so that the groits can tell other people how important their ruler is, to make him more popular. They also pasted ro proverbs or sayings of wisdom or truths.they are very
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