Keita The Voice of the Griot (1996)

It is an ordinary afternoon for young Mabo Keïta at home in Burkina Faso West Africa While his parents are taking a nap he reads a schoolbook on the front porch when a stranger an elderly man carrying his own hammock appears for an unexpected visit It turns out that the old man is a griot a West African musicianentertainer whose performances include tribal histories and genealogies The position of a griot is a timehonored one and passed down from father to son for many generations