The Epic of Sumanguru Kante

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-34796-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Mandingo, Band 15, 172 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 218 g

Reihe: African Sources for African History

The Epic of Sumanguru Kante contains the Bamana text and English translation of griot Abdoulaye Sako’s oral narrative of the life of Sumanguru, recorded in 1997 in Koulikoro (Mali), together with explanatory notes, a scholarly introduction, and sections on the Bamana language and musical accompaniment. Sumanguru is a familiar figure within Manding epic oral traditions about ancient Mali. But while these narratives generally focus on Sunjata Keita, Sako’s oral poem is rare in according Sumanguru the central role. In so doing he includes hitherto undocumented episodes relating to Sumanguru’s life and role as the ruler of Soso, the little known state said to have flourished in the western Sudan between the fall of ancient Ghana and rise of ancient Mali.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bulman, Stephen

Vydrine, Valentin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtswissenschaft: Theorie und Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Afrikanische Literaturen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editors’ Introduction
Acknowledgements
List of Figures

Introduction
Stephen P.D. Bulman

A Note on the Language and Transcription of the Bamana Text
Valentin F. Vydrine

Glossary of Manding Words

Transcriptions of the Major Musical Themes That Abdulaye Sako Played on the ng?`ni to Accompany His Performance of the Epic of Sumanguru
Sam Dickey

Summary of Contents of the Epic of Sumanguru

Banama Text and English Translation of the Epic of Sumanguru by Abdulaye Sako
Valentin F. Vydrine, Amadou Togo and Stephen P.D. Bulman

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen P.D. Bulman (Ph.D. 1990, University of Birmingham) is a management consultant in higher education and has published several historiographic and literary studies on the Sunjata epic.

Valentin F. Vydrine is a Professor of Manding at INALCO and an Enseignant-Chercheur at LLACAN (CNRS), both in Paris. He has published widely on Manding.