West African Griots

Who could become a griot?

• anybody

• someone with photographic memory

• a griot's descendant

• a griot's 2nd cousin twice removed

What are the stories a griot tells; purpose?

• resolve phenomena

• teaching morals

• maintaining culture and family history

• praise god/gods

• all of the above

What is a griot's job?

Choose 3

• storytellers

• verbal historians

• act like a parent to all

• poets/musicians

What is the main instrument griots use?

• Ngoni

• Kora

• Balafon

• Lyre

Why are griots significant.

• BC if they didn't exist we'ed know hardly anything about Africa bc they don't write down their history

• BC they're like cool grandmas that can play an instrument to tell stories

Religion

What is animism?

• the love of animation

• the theory that animals can speak English

• the belief that everything on earth has a powerful spirit that can help or harm humans

• the hypothesis that your neighbor Annie is a ghost

Religion

The Africans generally believed that there was a main god for the whole universe, and many ________ for day to day stuff

• spirits

• monsters

• fairies

• deities