Oral Tradtion

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Griot

storyteller
Nanga

7 stringed insterment which can play any tune
Oriki

praise poetry
Maroka

Hausa tribes tradtional poet
Giaccandi

Gikuyu tribes storyteller
moonlight play

telling stories at night so they dont interfer with the days labors
riddling section

opening to a story, riddle
Trickster
- Character in a story who is devise and sly
- example- monkey, spider, hare etc...
Call-and-response

when the griot interacts with the audience
geneologist

historian
proverb

truthful statement of ancient origin
folktale

legend that is tradtional to a culture, usaly has a moral

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Oral Tradtion

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2010-01-28T00:58:23Z

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