The name of the initiative has deep cultural significance. In West African traditions, a griot is a tribal elder responsible for preserving and recounting the oral history of the village.

Griot: A central figure in many West African cultures. Historically, the griot held many functions, including community historian, cultural critic, indigenous artist and collective spokesperson. The ...

Sona Jobarteh will perform in the next Cornell Concert Series (CCS) production on March 21 at 7:30 p.m. in Bailey Hall ...

The Griot Institute theme in 2024–25, Decolonial Education and Liberatory Learning, centers the simultaneous yearning for and creation of decoloniality in Black intellectual, artistic, activist and ...

Read more: 20 Popular Chain Grocery Stores For Meat, Ranked As with many culinary cultures in the Caribbean, pork griot ...