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Son-Jara : the Mande epic : Mandekan/English edition with notes and commentary
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ISBN: 0253343372 Year: 2003 Publisher: Bloomington, IN, USA : Indiana University Press,


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The epic of Sumanguru Kante
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ISBN: 9004349332 9004347968 Year: 2017 Publisher: Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill,

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The Epic of Sumanguru Kante contains the Bamana text and English translation of griot Abdoulaye Sako’s oral narrative of the life of Sumanguru, recorded in 1997 in Koulikoro (Mali), together with explanatory notes, a scholarly introduction, and sections on the Bamana language and musical accompaniment. Sumanguru is a familiar figure within Manding epic oral traditions about ancient Mali. But while these narratives generally focus on Sunjata Keita, Sako’s oral poem is rare in according Sumanguru the central role. In so doing he includes hitherto undocumented episodes relating to Sumanguru’s life and role as the ruler of Soso, the little known state said to have flourished in the western Sudan between the fall of ancient Ghana and rise of ancient Mali.


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De draaiende put : een studie naar de relatie tussen het Sunjata-epos en de samenleving in de Haut-Niger(Mali).
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ISBN: 9073782481 Year: 1996 Publisher: Leiden Onderzoekschool CNWS

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