Africa has epic poems.................this one was about the Lion King of ancient Mali..........get over yourselves.......................





Also, Mali saw a Lion King............he was really called that.................a Muslim as well................u idiots need to get over yourselves............and griots did more than just entertain people with stories..........they were historians..............administrators........etc......




Oral histories are the traditional means by which people typically pass on their histories. Oral sources of African histories included poems, praise songs, and accounts of past events. Official oral historians, known as griots,recorded the peoples' and courts' histories. The epic poem "Sundiata" (also spelled Sundjata) chronicles the life of Sundiata Keita (ca. 1210-1260), the son of the king who defeated the Ghana king Sumanguru and founded the empire of Mali.