AAS 3205 Chapter Notes - Chapter Character List: Griot

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13 Oct 2017

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Temple University

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African American Studies

Course

AAS 3205

Professor

Gerald Boodoo

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Sundiata: an epic of old mali character list. The griot who tells the story of sundiata. The hero of the epic and founder of the mali empire. Djata and nar maghan djata and sogolon djata. A great sorcerer king, and sundiata"s primary antagonist. Sundiata creates the mali empire by defeating him. Soumaoro"s son and one of his chief generals. Son of sassouma b r t , half-brother to sundiata, and king of mali in his stead before. Sundiata"s griot, gifted to him by his father.

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1 - In the year 1716, or about that period, a boy used to be seen in the streets of Boston who was known among his schoolfellows and playmates by the name of Ben Franklin. Ben was born in 1706; so that he was now about ten years old. His father, who had come over from England, was a soap-boiler and tallow-chandler, and resided in Milk Street, not far from the Old South Church.

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