Griots

            In West Africa, they have people storytellers. Those storytellers are called griots and they serve as the living memory for an indivisual, village, or clan. There stories were about history, music, poetry, dance, and drama to capture these memories and then entertain their audiences. Mansa Musa even brought griots on an hajj so they can be oral historians. 
             To be a griot, it takes lots of time and it's actually very hard to study. If I was a griot, I think I'd like being one because I love history and poetry. And