Keita! Voice of the Griot
Drama. Comedy
Keita is a retelling of the first third of Sundjata Keita's 13th century epic, Sundjata.[1] It tells of Mabo Keïta (Dicko), a thirteen-year-old boy who lives in a middle-class family in Ouagadougou and attends a geed school. One day he encounters Djeliba Kouyate (Kouyate), an elderly griot who wants to tell the young Keïta the origin of his name, being related to Sundata (Boro). Kouyate begins his story with the Mandeng creation myth: ... [+]