Moral lesson in the epic Sundiata by the griot?

Question

The question that I am asked is The griot narrates several moral lessons about the human condition name 3 of them.

Answer 1

I'm not sure whether this is the sort of thing you're looking for, but in D. T. Niane's transcription the entire epic seems to be a reminder of the importance of griots. When Maghan Kon Fatta wants to designate Sundiata as his heir, he gives him his own griot, and when Soumaoro Kante usurps the throne of Mali, he deals Sundiata a personal blow by stealing that griot. Near the end, after telling of the destruction of some city, the narrator (a griot, of course) says that it is now "only a name in the mouths of griots." And in the "intermission" about two thirds of the way through, the griot-narrator talks about the importance of his own profession and how encroaching literacy is eroding that importance. Griots, he says, know how to safeguard the learning of the society and have discretion about whom to tell what, but (I'm paraphrasing a bit) "White people put everything they know in writing, and then everyone knows it."

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