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A griot is a West African historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet, and/or musician.
Senegalese Wolof griot, 1890
A Hausa Griot performs at Diffa, Niger, playing a komsa (Xalam).
Griots of Sambala, king of Médina (Fula people, Mali), 1890
Mandinka Griot Al-Haji Papa Susso performing songs from the oral tradition of the Gambia on the kora