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The 9 pages that link to Epic of Sundiata, each with the reason it gives.

• Oral traditionBroader topic: Its performances preserve and reinterpret Mandinka history across generations.

• Mali EmpireRelated: The epic remains a major source of cultural memory about Mali's foundation.

• Oral literatureBroader topic: Its performances by griots demonstrate how history and artistry coexist in oral epic.

• GriotsBroader topic: Griots perform this foundational Mandé history in changing, locally grounded versions.

• Oral poetryBroader topic: Its versions have been transmitted and reshaped by oral performers.

• Mandé peoplesRelated: Its performances preserve and reinterpret Manding historical memory.

• Sundiata KeitaRelated: Its storytellers preserve the central narrative of Sundiata’s rise.

• African oral literatureBroader topic: Its performances connect heroic narrative with Mandé histories and griot practice.

• History of poetryBroader topic: Its performance tradition broadens accounts of early poetry beyond surviving manuscripts.