Oral History Keepers
Griots, elders, and tradition keepers preserve ancestral knowledge through oral transmission. Their memory is the community's library.
Griots, elders, and tradition keepers preserve ancestral knowledge through oral transmission. Their memory is the community's library.
The griot remembers what the people must not forget. In their voice, ancestors still speak.
Oral Tradition
Written about in
- What African traditions say about elders and ancestors
Griots and other tradition keepers carry genealogy, history and praise in memory and perform it. The community's record lives in a trained person rather than in an archive.