![]() ![]() ![]() He says that if Maghan marries the ugly woman currently heading for Niani, she will bear his successor and this successor will be greater than Alexander the Great. ![]() The hunter is a soothsayer, and as he jumbles his cowrie shells, he tells Maghan that the silk-cotton tree grows from a tiny seed. Maghan's griot, Gnankouman Doua, invites the hunter to sit with them. One day, a hunter approaches Niani with an offering for the king. Maghan Kon Fatta spends his time sitting under the great silk-cotton tree in Niani, and his first son, Dankaran Touman, sits with him. At first, Mali was ruled by Bambara kings, and Mamoudou Kouyaté lists the lineage of these kings down to Sundiata's father, Maghan Kon Fatta. Mamoudou Kouyaté asks the reader to listen to the history of Mali and of Sundiata. Mamoudou Kouyaté, a griot and the narrator, says that griots are the vessels of speech and the keepers of history who teach kings their history so they can predict the future. ![]()
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