Sundiata
Life and Legacy | Sundiata Epic
Life and Legacy
Sundiata Keita or Mari Diata from Encarta Africana.
Wikipedia: Sundiata Keita . A stub, but the entries on Mali Empire and Timbuktu are better.
Brief summary from Mr. Dowling's Electronic Passport to Ancient Africa.
Short summary from Black History Pages. The author gives no indication that the events of his life are in any doubt, or what the sources of his history might be.
Brief page from the African American Registry, but wait, that's a photograph of Sundiata!
Sundiata Epic
Amazon. Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali by D. T. Niane, translated by G.D. Pickett.
Publisher's blurb.
Long excerpt from African Review of Books' Africa's 100 Best Books.
An excellent guide to
Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali. Sixteen-page guide includes a character list, a detailed summary and direct quotations. I can't find the author, but it comes from the handouts section of
Boston University's African Studies Center.
Key Passages of the Sundiata compiled by Professor Stephen Zelnick, from Pickett's translation.
Background to Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali by Jim Jones. Offers brief introductions to the geography, religion, politics and the personalities of the epic.
Family tree of the character in the Sundiata epic from Monomyth which provides teaching resources based on a Cambell-ian (ie., Jungian/structuralist) approach to myth. Monomyth includes a retelling for seventh graders.
The Sundiata, An Outline by Janice Siegel, apparently an out-branch of Dr. J's Illustrated Guide to the Clasical World. See also her short essay "Epic Qualities of the Sundiata."
Study Guide to the Bamba Suso version of Sunjata, by Daniel P. Tompkins.
Amazon. In Search of Sunjata: The Mande Oral Epic As History, Literature and Performance edited by Ralph A. Austen—a collection of critical essays on the epic.
Sunjata (or Sundiata) Links and Bibliography by Michele Delattre, from Monomyth.
Bibliography of the West African Epic Tradition.
African Epics Resource Page by Stephen Belcher, wth a bibliography of versions of Sunjata.
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