Kings, scribes, and bards: a look at signs of survival for keepers of the oral tradition among the Songhay-speaking peoples of Niger

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Title:	Kings, scribes, and bards: a look at signs of survival for keepers of the oral tradition among the Songhay-speaking peoples of Niger
Author:	Hale, Thomas A.
Book title:	Folklore in Africa today: proceedings of the international workshop = Folklore en Afrique d'aujourd'hui: actes du colloque international, Budapest, 1-4. XI. 1982 / ed. by: Szilá Biernaczky
Year:	1984
Pages:	207-220
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Niger
Subjects:	oral traditions griots
Abstract:	If the clerics and scribes of the past have been replaced with secular writers who use the new print and electronic media, it appears that the counterparts of those chroniclers of the past, the keepers of the oral tradition, may yet survive, using some of the very elements imported from foreign cultures which have contributed most to the changing nature of contemporary Africa. Bibliogr., notes.