CE: How did ancient West African people share values and knowledge? by Chanel Hill

ChanelHill — 2018-05-02 01:54:58 UTC

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Ancient City of Timbuktu

ChanelHill — 2018-05-02 02:21:51 UTC

Ahmed Baba Institute

ChanelHill — 2018-05-02 02:22:42 UTC

Griots & Storytelling

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Ancient West African Art

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Seated Figure

edenhai1 — 2018-05-08 01:23:20 UTC

Ahmed Baba, Scholar of Timbuktu

edenhai1 — 2019-04-14 15:43:34 UTC

Willa

2019-04-18 19:01:55 UTC

There are 40,000 manuscripts in the Ahmed Baba Institute.

Jasmine

2019-04-18 19:02:21 UTC

Most of the libraries were started by families.

Miles

2019-04-18 19:02:55 UTC

Timbuktu was a big city in the kingdom of Ghana.

Leroy

2019-04-18 19:03:48 UTC

Manuscripts held a lot of knowledge.

Minki

2019-04-18 19:04:21 UTC

The Ahmed Baba Institute is a huge library that held manuscripts.

Will

2019-04-18 19:04:37 UTC

Timbuktu was unknown until the 10th century.

Eva

2019-04-18 19:05:02 UTC

Some manuscripts are about astrology and theology.

Jonah

2019-04-18 19:05:39 UTC

Ghana was the first major power of Africa. (Timbuktu was in Ghana).

Will

2019-04-29 17:37:12 UTC

In Malian, griots are called jeli.

Miles

2019-04-29 17:37:43 UTC

Griots had to have strong memories.

Shamir

2019-04-29 17:38:12 UTC

Anasi the spider's kids helped him get out of trouble. This story taught to work together, which is something that Ancient West African's valued.

Jonah

2019-04-29 17:39:04 UTC

Griots had to learn from their ancestors of how they taught the griots to become one. If their ancestors wouldn't teach them, there would be no griots to teach them.

Minki

2019-04-29 17:40:27 UTC

West Africans first thought they should not write and they spoke different languages.

Annabella

2019-04-29 17:41:29 UTC

Sometimes griots would use people to act it out so they could make their story.

Kaan

2019-04-29 17:41:59 UTC

Some people enjoyed riddles and proverb that anybody could tell. The griots job was to remember and pass down the stories of different groups of people.

Leroy

2019-04-29 17:42:45 UTC

A female griot was called a griotte.

Nina

2019-04-29 17:43:06 UTC

Anansi is a Ghanaian name.

Kino

2019-04-29 17:43:25 UTC

The word Griot is French.

Shamir

2019-04-30 14:45:19 UTC

Bumps and holes on sculptures could be showing blisters or scars from diseases.

Miles

2019-04-30 14:46:04 UTC

How they made the seated figure was that it was made of clay that was shaped like a snake.

Jonah

2019-04-30 14:46:19 UTC

Some sculptures had bumps on them to push diseases away and were made of dried clay.

Leroy

2019-04-30 14:47:38 UTC

Some sculptures looks liked faces.

Minki

2019-04-30 14:47:59 UTC

The Akan people settled in Ghana and then broke up so there was an artifact of a head that represents the Akan King.

Annabella

2019-04-30 14:49:16 UTC

The sculpture is a King.

Jasmine

2019-04-30 14:49:50 UTC

The body of the seated figure is all bent over on one knee.

Nina

2019-04-30 14:50:24 UTC

The backbone of the seated figure looks like a skeleton.

Carter

2019-04-30 14:50:52 UTC

The seated figure could be made out of clay, stone and iron.

Kaan

2019-04-30 14:51:15 UTC

Some of the sculptures are showing diseases because there were a lot of diseases when they were coming to trade in Timbuktu and Djenne.

Kino

2019-04-30 14:52:09 UTC

There were many diseases from trading because of all of the movement from places.

Will

2019-04-30 14:53:02 UTC

Ancient sculptures could have come from the fall of Ghana.

Chanel

2025-03-05 15:07:09 UTC

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