Background
The Disney movie based on the epic of Sundiata
What is The Lion King?
The third longest river in Africa
What is the Niger river?
The process by which children become members of Komo society
What is initiation?
Semi-nomadic people who frequently attacked farming villages
Who are the pastoralists?
The process of incorporating different religions into a new religious system
What is religious syncretism?
Another name for Mali
What is the Bright Country?
The Creator god
Who is Faro?
Relationship in which kings provided protection to nearby towns in exchange for gifts
What is a tributary relationship?
Oral historians who served as advisors to kings
Who are the griots?
The northernmost part of Mali, where rainfall farming is possible
What is the Beledugu Plateau?
Spiritual force found in all things
What is nyama?
Responsible for providing millet, maintaining harmony within the family, and managing inter-familial affairs
Who are Malinke men?
An ethnic group indigenous to southern Mali and other parts of West Africa
Who are the Malinke?
A mountain range west of Mali that provides the gold used in the Saharan Desert trade
What is the Futa Djalon?
Humans closest to the ancestors
Who are the elders?
The time in which farmers faced the greatest threat from pastoralists
What is the dry season?
Our source for the epic of Sundiata
Who is Mamoudou Kouyaté?
One of the navigable stretches of the Niger river
What is the Djoliba?
Humans with spiritual power
Who are sorcerers?
The capital of the fallen Ghana empire
What is Kumbi-Saleh?