Sundiata Keita
Hi there, and welcome to 8 Minute Lives. In villages and cities across West Africa, there are musicians called griots. They're historians, praise singers, keepers of memory, and their profession passes from parent to child, going back generations. And for nearly eight hundred years, griots have been performing one story above all others. It's the story of a boy who couldn't walk. A boy mocked in his father's court, driven into exile, and written off by nearly everyone. That boy grew up to found one of the largest and richest empires in West African history. His name was Sundiata Keita, the…
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