The Epic Of Sundjata: Retold By The Masters Of Storytelling

Now listen to the story of sundjata, the lion king of mali, as it was told from time beyond memory. Sundjata, the father of the bright country, the master of a hundred conquered kings! Retold by generations of griots, the guardians of african culture, this oral tradition has been handed down from the thirteenth century and captures all the mystery and majesty of medieval. In the last decades the sunjata epic has enjoyed much attention as a masterpiece of african oral literature; At american universities it is often part of undergraduate courses on literature or.