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	Sundiata Keita - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sunjata and his mother, who now had given birth to two daughters and adopted a second son from Konaté's third wife Namandjé, suffered the scorn of the new king and his mother.
		Sundiata Keita established his capital at his home village of Niani, Mali, near the present-day Malian border with Guinea.
		Sundiata Keita died in 1255, probably of drowning.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sundiata_Keita (726 words)

	Salif Keita (by L. Proyect)
		Keita hails from Bamako, Mali's capital city, which is as important to the great flowering of African music over the past several decades as New Orleans or Chicago were to American Jazz in the early years.
		Malian musicians sing in one or another of the languages traceable to the Mandingan empire in Western Mali of the 13th to 15th century founded by Sunjata Keita, a renowned warrior, who is an African version of the proud Aztec or Incan dynasts of the same time period.
		Keita sings in a medium tempo, with a penetrating high tenor voice rooted in the Islamic style of the muzzeins, who call people to prayer each morning.
	www.columbia.edu /~lnp3/mydocs/culture/keita.htm (1107 words)

	French culture \| Music \| Salif Keita: US Tour Oct-Nov. 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Born in Mali, West Africa in 1949, Salif Keita comes from a noble family, and is a descendant of Sunjata Keita, who founded the Mali Empire in 1240.
		Keita was the third of thirteen children born to Sina Keita, a landowner in the village of Djoliba, where he grew up, near Mali's capital, Bamako.
		The impressive MANSA OF MALI retrospective was released in 1993 to coincide with Salif Keita's tours of the United States, and Southern Africa.
	www.frenchculture.org /music/events/02keita.html (747 words)

	A&L Performing Arts News Release - Salif Keita (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Keita is highly acclaimed for his searing voice, majestic demeanor and his sophisticated embrace of the traditional music of Mali’s Maninka culture, pan-African instruments and melodies, and rhythms from Cuban jazz and American rock and roll.
		Born in 1949 in the village of Djoliba, Keita should have had an easy life, as he was a direct descendant of Sunjata Keita, the warrior-hunter prince who united various peoples into the Mande Empire in the 13th Century.
		However, Salif Keita was born an albino, a physical condition considered a curse in Africa.
	www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu /archive/2002-2003/pr/keita.asp (601 words)

	Music \| The real African thing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Keita’s concert is the centerpiece of "Rhythm and Ritual: Ancestors and Memory," a weekend of films, lectures, exhibits, workshops, and performances that focus on present-day realities in Africa and the diaspora; it’s all presented by World Music and the Cambridge Center for Adult Education.
		Keita does open his pipes full bore on the driving "Madan," which is based on a rhythm from a Malian harvest party.
		Keita also plays the edge with his voice, settling on its natural, clear center and then fraying off into its ragged outer reaches.
	bostonphoenix.com /boston/music/other_stories/documents/02481502.htm (3106 words)

	Outpost 10F Music Guild - Biographies
		Salif Keita, also known as the Golden Voice of Africa, was born in Djoliba, a small village in Mali not too far from the capitol Bamako.
		He was the third of thirteen children and he's also a descendent of Sunjata Keita, who in a.d.
		Salif Keitas music is a blend of many styles, everything from traditional griot music from his childhood to other african styles and western jazz and rock music, cuban music as well as music from Spanin and Portugal.
	guilds.outpost10f.com /~music/biographies/keita/index.html (462 words)

	Entertainment of Friday, 28 March 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Born in Mali, in 1949, Salif Keita comes from a noble family and is a descendant of Sunjata Keita, who founded the Mali Empire in 1240.
		He was the third of thirteen children born to Sina Keita, a landowner in the Village of Djoliba, where he grew up near Mali's capital, Bamako.
		In addition to the problems of growing up with his skin colour, Keita found the opposition of his family to his interest in becoming a singer since the traditions of his ancestry excluded members of the nobility from becoming singers.
	www.ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=34635 (570 words)

	Musicas Del Mundo - Tu cita con las musicas del mundo
		Salif Keita was the third of thirteen children born to Sina Keita, a landowner in the village of Djoliba, where he grew up, near Mali’s capital, Bamako.
		The first group that he worked with was the Super Rail Band, a state-sponsored ensemble that was based at a Bamako railway station hotel, and which has served as an important launching pad for the careers of numerous West African musicians, including kora player and singer Mory Kante, and guitarist Kante Manfila.
		On his 2002 album, Moffou, Salif Keita is joined by excellent musicians, including Cape Verdian diva Cesaria Evora on the track Yamore, guitar-hero Djelly Moussa Kouyaté from Guinea, and the inescapable Kanté Manfila (acoustic guitar), both of them long-time companions of Salif.
	www.musicasdelmundo.org /artists/artist_page.php?id=1105 (1362 words)

	BookRags: Sundiata Keita Summary
		In the following essay, Jansen describes rehearsals for a Sunjata performance and explains what is missed by simply reading the text as compared with experiencing a communal performance.
		The epic "Sundiata" depicts Sogolon Kendjou and Sassouma Berete in direct contrast, as Sogolon is portrayed as a good mother while her counterpart Sassouma is portrayed as an evil mother.
		Both queens wanted the best for their sons, but the differences in their characters and methods were so different that it influenced not only Sogolon's son Sundiata and Sassouma's son Dankaran, but all of the king's children.
	www.bookrags.com /Sundiata_Keita (206 words)

	Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Born in the latter years of the 12th Century, Sunjata was the child of a king, and his mother was a hunchback.
		Sunjata’s brother Dangara Touma and the kings council had commissioned Balla Fasseke to be their diplomatic envoy to Sosso and the powerful king Sumanguru Kante.
		It was time for Sunjata to embrace his destiny — ‘One with the strength of the buffalo and the courage of the lion.
	www.mamafrica.org /articles1.htm (3693 words)

	Keita Film Notes
		Keita introduces one of the most important works of African oral literature, The Sundjata Epic, within the story of a contemporary young African’s initiation into the traditional history and heroic heritage of his family.
		Great griot of the Keita family; awakened by the Hunter of Do, Djeliba travels to the city to fulfill his mission: to initiate Mabo Keita by telling him the story of his great ancestor Sundjata Keita and instructing Mabo in the meaning of his name.
		According to California Newsreel's introduction to Keita: The Heritage of the Griot, "Both ancient and modern storylines are initiated by the mysterious appearance of a hunter [the Hunter of Do], a passerby representing destiny who intervenes at strategic moments to propel Sundjata and Mabo on their journeys" to understand and fulfill their destinies.
	web.cocc.edu /cagatucci/classes/hum211/CoursePack/Keitafilmnotes.htm (7057 words)

	Cora Connection: The Balaphone
		The epic tale of Sunjata's transformation from invalid child to all-powerful ruler remains the quintessential legend of griot lore eight centuries later.
		Sunjata's chief adversary in this epic is Soumaoro Kante, the Sosso king, whose kingdom lay within the region we now call Guinea.
		Faséké's death, the Kouyaté family in what is now Guinea became the official keepers of the original instrument, and there is an elaborate ritual for passing along the relic to the next "keeper" or Balatigui.
	www.coraconnection.com /pages/balaphone.html (1175 words)

	World History Connected \| Vol. 2 No. 1 \| Paul Ely Smith: Singing History: Jeliya in the Classroom
		The first episode of the series is called "Born Musicians" and consists of a series of somewhat unconnected but still wonderful field recordings of jelis in action with narration and some interview.
		There are several scenes of performances of Sunjata, including one before an unnamed patron of (apparently) considerable stature, as well as another that shows the jelis fitting the epic to a particular function, inserting the name of the mother of a child whose naming ceremony is being celebrated.
		In addition, the story line, in which a wealthy merchant is stopped from slaughtering slaves by a jeli, is a testament to power for the jeli—the merchant could not risk condemnation by the jeli.
	worldhistoryconnected.press.uiuc.edu /2.1/smith.html (1183 words)

	Epic of Sundjata
		The story of Sundjata Keita is most cherished by Mande peoples, and most often repeated, in endless variations, by Mande griots, past and present.
		The prophecy said that two hunters would come to the king with a very ugly woman; and despite her ugliness, the hunter said, the king must marry this woman, for she would bear him Mali's greatest king ever.
		Indeed, as the name Keita indicates, he is a noble descendent of Sundiata Keita, the first king of the Malian Empire.
	web.cocc.edu /cagatucci/classes/hum211/CoursePack/sundjata.htm (5523 words)

	Djelimady Tounkara: Afropop Artist -- Mali, West Africa
		In the era of Mali's first president, Modibo Keita, musical groups were sponsored by the state, with the proviso that they had to incorporate the country's traditional music into their sounds.
		He played with them briefly at the start, alongside their star singer, the young Salif Keita, but Tounkara was soon spirited away to Dakar where he played in the house band at the Miami club alongside champions of West African salsa like Orchestre Baobob and the Star Band.
		Salif Keita had left, but working with singers Mory Kante, and later Makan Ganessy and Lafia Diabaté, Tounkara became the star arranger and guitarist for the Rail Band during its glory years.
	www.afropop.org /explore/artist_info/ID/341/DjelimadyTounkara/?lang=tz (996 words)

	Djembe dojo
		After their defeat at the hands of Sunjata and his allies in the thirteenth century, Susu groups migrated into Guinea toward the coast absorbing influences from the people among whom they settled; modern usage of Susu usually refers to this later wave settled along the coast (see the recordings of Wassa and Wofa).
		Recommended renditions of the Sunjata epic which give the cultural history of the Maninka and explain the roles of the major families in the formation of the Mali empire include Niane (1965), Laye (1980), and Johnson (1986).
		Mamady Keita's homecoming performance with the Djoliba Ballet, shown in the excellent film Djembefola, is a fine example of this kind of compositional process, which is largely absent in village drumming.
	www.drumdojo.com /world/africa/djembe/djhistory.htm (4016 words)

	webMande/Culture & Education/Smithsonian Institution/Mali, Sundjata and Djenne Terracotas Workshop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		His founder, Sunjata Keita, remains today a central figure of West African history and and a mainstay in griot repertoire.
		Scholarly tradition about Sunjata and the Mali empire; developed from early Arab sources to today, through the late 1950s and particularly since the 1960s, at the dawn of African independence from European rule.
		Yet, under Sunjata's rule, Islam was practised in the "court tradition" of the Western Sudan, whereby the king and his counsellors fulfilled the obligations of Islam and maintained clerics at court without abandoning traditional religious observances.
	www.mande.net /culture/workshop/outline.html (672 words)

	6moons.com - world music: Salif Keita "Moffou"
		Malinese superstar Salif Keita, credited with being one of the unwitting founding fathers of Afro-Pop, is also a direct descendant of Sunjata Keita, the founder of the Mali Empire in 1240.
		A move to the capitol of Barnako proved the launching pad that eventually saw Keita and fellow musicians of the popular Mandingo/Cuban crossover formation Rail Band regroup as Les Amassadeurs Internationaux.
		The title Moffou is also the name of a Barnako club which Salif Keita opened earlier this year to celebrate and promote the West African music scene.
	www.6moons.com /worldmusic/moffou.html (397 words)

	Sunjata Resources for Teachers, Monomyth Website, ORIAS, UC Berkeley
		The king also depends on his jali for sage counsel and examples from the lore of his ancestors.
		Finally, Sunjata relies on ancestral ties with neighboring kingdoms in order to assemble an alliance large enough to defeat Sumanguru.
		Subordinate to family, griots, and ancestral allies are various soothsayers and sorcerers whose power and advice are often suspect, as we see from their failure to achieve the objectives of queen Sassouma and later of Sumanguru.
	ias.berkeley.edu /orias/hero/sunjata/interview.html (1295 words)

	Maninka
		Bamana is spoken in central Mali, Maninka is spoken in western Mali and eastern Guinea; Dyula is the name for the same language in Côte d'Ivoire, and comes from the term for trader.
		Please note that, particularly for Sunjata and Segou, I have included narratives of all sorts to allow comparison of versions and perspectives.
		The epic is rarely performed in its entirety, except at the request of researchers, radio stations, or schools.
	www.personal.psu.edu /staff/s/p/spb3/maninka.html (783 words)

	Mali: Afropop Country -- West Africa, Berber music, wassoulou, griot music, African reggae
		Mali's first president, Modibo Keita, was an Africanist keen to preserve and protect Malian culture, so he created a national system of state-sponsored bands and traditional ensembles.
		In 1968, Modibo Keita was overthrown in a coup led by a military man, Moussa Traoré, who ruled the country as a dictator until he was overthrown in a popular uprising in 1991.
		Although Traoré retreated from Keita's commitment to culture and withdrew funding for Mali's national ensembles, the country's musical development continued.
	www.afropop.org /explore/country_info/ID/2/Mali (705 words)

	WORLD VILLAGE
		As the name Diabate indicates, Mamadou comes from a family of griots, or jelis as they are known among the Manding.
		They use music and sometimes oratory to preserve and sustain people's consciousness of the past, a past that stretches back to the 13th century when the Manding king Sunjata Keita consolidated the vast Empire of Mali, covering much of West Africa.
		The stories of these glory days and the times since remain important touchstones for people today, not only for the Manding, but for many citizens of Mali, Guinea, Gambia, and Senegal.
	www.worldvillagemusic.com /anglais/artistesfiche.php?artist_id=47 (137 words)

	Salif Keita \|\|\| Mondomix * musiques du monde * world music
		How could a 19-year-old albino boy, descendant from the founder of Mali’s kingdom in the 13th century, turn his back on convention and become one of Africa’s greatest musicians?
		Only Salif Keita can truly answer that enigma.
		Since he arrived in Paris in 1984 the singer has established himself as one of the most celebrated personalities in “world music”.
	www.mondomix.com /en/portraits.php?artist_id=131&reportage_id=131 (122 words)

	The Clark - Clark Winter Music Series to Feature West African Artists
		Born in Mali, Mamadou Diabate is descended from a long line of jeli, the musician-storytellers of the Manding people of West Africa.
		Jelis use music and oratory to preserve and sustain people's consciousness of the past, stretching back to the 13th-century when the Manding king Sunjata Keita consolidated the Empire of Mali.
		Diabate is a virtuoso of the kora, a twenty-one stringed gourd instrument with an unusual, harp-like sound.
	www.clarkart.edu /make_a_visit/press_releases/content.cfm?ID=227 (567 words)

	National Geographic Live! Music from Mali (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Descended from a long line of jeli—the musician/storytellers also known as griots—Malian musician Mamadou Diabate is a master of the kora, a 21-stringed instrument with a resonant, harp-like sound.
		As a jeli, Diabate is heir to a practice of using music and oratory to sustain the Manding people’s consciousness of a past that stretches back to the 13th—century king Sunjata Keita.
		While continuing the jeli tradition, Diabate and the Mamadou Diabate Ensemble—Balla Kouyate, balafon; Noah Jarrett, acoustic bass; Djkorya Kante, guitar and percussion—also strive to create a bridge between Africa’s traditional past and cosmopolitan future in collaborations with artists as diverse as blues legend Taj Mahal, Irish singer Susan McKeown, and jazz pianist Randy Weston.
	nationalgeographic.com /nglive/washingtondc/f2005/africa/diabate.html (152 words)

	Balla Tounkara! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Jelis are members of a class of hereditary artisans, professional musicians who are historians, praise singers, and storytellers.
		They have played a vital role in transmitting culture and knowledge since the founding of the Mande Empire by Sunjata Keita 800 years ago.
		He has shared the stage with Youssou N’Dour, Salif Keita, Jimmy Cliff, Baaba Maal, Ali Farka Toure, Oumou Sangare, Ami Koita, T.J. Wheeler, and Super Rail Band with Djelimady Tounkara.
	www.wheresthe1.com /20030516pr.html (538 words)

	Salif Keita discography
		Salif Keita duets with Leon Keïta on "Koma kouma" and "'Wousse".
		1991 Salif Keita: Destiny of a noble outcast.
		Contains Abede and Gnokon fe by Salif Keita.
	www.radioafrica.com.au /Discographies/Salif.html (675 words)

	(Gambian Rhythms)
		The female dancers carry 'sawandang' - the implements used for winnowing: separating the chaff from grains after the millet, maize or coos have been ground.
		Empire (1232 a.d.)- Mansa (king) Sunjata (Sundiata) Keita.
		It is a popular traditional tune which celebrates the life and achievements of Sunjata.
	home.acceleration.net /clark/PaperVu/Gambia.htm (271 words)

	Black People - Destee - Salif Keita Interview
		Salif Keita came to New York in September to do press in advance of his October tour.
		It promised to be an unusual tour for this restless singer.
		He was Malian, a relative of Sunjata Keita.
	www.destee.com /forums/printthread.php?t=13556 (2517 words)

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