Description
Book SynopsisBorn in Guinea, author and playwright Djibril Tamsir Niane is a descendant of griots African oral historians/storytellers. He translated Sundiata, as told by the griot Djeli Mamadou Kouyate, into French under the title Soundjata ou Epoque Mandiginue in 1960. It was later translated into English by G. D. Pickett in 1965.
Table of ContentsMap
Introduction to the Revised Edition
Background Information
Geography
Religion
Society
Politics
Oral Tradition, Pronunciation and Spelling
Who's Who of Characters/Glossary of Places
Preface
The Story of Sundiata
The Words of the Griot Mamadou Kouyatç
The First Kings of Mali
The Buffalo Woman
The Lion Child
Childhood
The Lion’s Awakening
Exile
Soumaoro Kantç: The Sorcerer King
History
The Baobab Leaves
The Return
The Names of the Heroes
Nana Triban and Balla Fassçkç
Krina
The Empire
Kouroukan Fougan or The Division of the World
Niani
Eternal Mali
Author’s Notes
