GRIOT: A central figure in many West African cultures. Historically, the griot held many functions, including community historian, cultural critic, indigenous artist and collective spokesperson. The ...

Griots are valued storytellers tasked with maintaining a tradition of oral history, most prominent in parts of West Africa.

Griot: A central figure in many West African cultures. Historically, the griot held many functions, including community historian, cultural critic, indigenous artist and collective spokesperson. The ...

It opened in 1997 under the original name, the Black World History Wax Museum. The museum got its current name, Griot from west African culture. They say the griot is a highly respected community ...

Lois Conley founded The Griot Museum of Black History after realizing that St. Louis was not acknowledging African American ...

who is depended on for upholding and documenting the history of African culture through storytelling and song. Griots were as ...

Moreover, students will be introduced to how epic narrations are performed in West African settings as means to impart specific historical knowledge, including genealogies.” Wassa Kouyaté Wassa ...

Highlighting Black talent is the central mission of the second annual We Black Folk Fest at Club Passim in Cambridge, a two-day festival in February honoring the West African griot tradition through ...

Hailed by Herbie Hancock as showing “great promise as a new voice in the further development of jazz in the future”, ...