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The archive is people first: knowledge holders, griots, cooks, teachers and the young women recording them.
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Portraits of custodians, makers, elders and young documentarians.
5 entries in the archive.
Portrait · Mandinka · 6 min
Fatou Ceesay, Family Historian
Eighty-four years old, and the keeper of a lineage never written down.
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Portrait · Mandinka · 14 min
The Griot Families of Brikama
Six households whose profession is remembering.
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Portrait · English & Wolof · 10 min
Young Custodians
The women of the storytelling labs, in their own words.
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