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The Griot Who Remembered Mansa Musa
Every king needs a memory. For Mansa Musa of the Mali Empire, that memory was carried not in ledgers or chronicles, but in the voices of the jeliw — the griots. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the role of the jeliw in preserving Mansa Musa's reign: how they were trained, what they sang, and how their oral histories survived centuries without writing. They discuss the Kouroukan Fouga, the epic of Sundiata, and the specific jeliw families who guarded Musa's legacy — families like the Kouyaté and the Diabaté. Lucas explains how griots were more than praise-singers: they were…
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