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Publication details [#49330]

Henrich, Daniel J. 2001. The griot storyteller and modern media. Communicatio: South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research 27 (1) : 24–27.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

culture | literacy | mass media | religion | storytelling

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper discusses the role of the griot or African storyteller, as major conveyer of collective wisdom among African tribal people, such as the rural Wolof of Senegal, and issues of culture, literacy, and religion, and the impact of modern media.