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Oral Histories, Poetry and Tales
(Adapted from Section 3, West African Society and Culture)
West African literature was part of an oral tradition that passed from generation to generation. As its most formal, this was a literature developed by specially trained poets and musicians who served kings and nobles. (1) _____________ West African literature was (2) _____________ a folk art that expressed the views of the common people.
At king’s court, there could be several poet-musicians who had high status and specialized in poems glorifying rulers and their ancestors by linking fact and fiction. Recitations of these poems were often accompanied by drums and horns. (3) _____________, court poets use their trained memories to recall historical events (4) _____________ precise genealogies. The self-employed poets, called griots, who travelled from place to place were socially inferior to court poets, (5) _____________ they functioned in a similar manner. (6) _____________ court poets and griots were men.
(7) _____________, women excelled in the genre of folk literature. (8) _____________ joined men in the creation and performance of work songs and (9) _____________ led in creating and singing dirges, lullabies, and satirical verses. (10) _____________significant as poetry for African-American history were the West African prose tales.
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