200 years after the creation of braille, blind people in Mali say it has allowed them to fit in
Known as “the blind couple from Mali," the duo of Amadou Bagayoko, who lost his vision at age 16, and Mariam Doumbia, who ...
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Griot & Grits Project preserving Black families' history using AI: 'Crazy and exciting'
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.
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Griot Institute for the Study of Black Lives & Cultures
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 ...
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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 ...
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The Seriously Underrated Pork Dish José Andrés Adores
Read more: 20 Popular Chain Grocery Stores For Meat, Ranked As with many culinary cultures in the Caribbean, pork griot ...
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200 years after the creation of braille, blind people in Mali say it has allowed them to fit in
The guitar is an integral part of Mali's griot tradition, the cultural practice of storytelling through music. Musicians adapted the guitar to emulate the sounds of traditional string instruments ...