Griot
Videos
A griot is a West African historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet, and/or musician. Griots are masters of communicating stories and history orally, which is an African tradition.
Senegalese griot, 1890
A Hausa griot performs at Diffa, Niger, playing a komsa (Xalam).
Griots of Sambala, king of Médina (Fula people, Mali), 1890. Photo by Joannès Barbier.
Trio Da Kali performing in Mexico City during the 32nd "Festival del Centro Histórico" in Teatro de la Ciudad, c. March 2016
Bambara people
Videos
The Bambara are a Mandé ethnic group native to West Africa, primarily southern Mali, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Burkina Faso and Senegal. They have been associated with the historic Bambara Empire. Today, t
Bambara people in upper Sénégal river valley, 1890. (illustration from Colonel Frey's Côte occidentale d'Afrique, 1890, Fig.49 p.87)
A Bambara warrior.
A Bambara village.
Bambara human figure, late 19th to early 20th century, Mali. Wood. African Art Museum, Smithsonian.