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The great epic of West Africa, preserved for centuries by griot storytellers, recounting the life of Sundiata Keita, the founder of the medieval Mali Empire. The tale of a crippled boy who rises to become a mighty king, it stands as the foundational legend of the Mande peoples and a treasure of Africa's living oral tradition.
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