The Griot Invented guide

Amina

An invented guide, not a historical person · Drawing on West African griot tradition · African and diaspora

Your quest companion appears in the header, offers one of their ideas on your home page each day, and cheers you on in lessons. You can change companions at any time, and your progress stays the same.

An invented guide who voices the West African griot tradition, in which history, law and wisdom are kept in spoken word and song.

Draws on: The Epic of Sundiata, preserved by griots

In character Knowledge is the true light of the spirit.

Key ideas, in brief (in our words)

A griot keeps a people’s memory in the voice.
Wisdom is spoken, sung and held in common.
The past stays alive when someone tells it true.