"Call me Thau-Thau Haramanuba,I am a Griot,a Master of words and memory,a keeper of the flame and the history of my people who originated in the rain forests and the Great Lakes,and beyond the distant African plains and savannas descend from the Great One I descend from the Immortal Ra-Kgoa-Le of Thobejane and trace my Ancestry back to the first African dawn. Since those primordial days my family has been the Village Griots,the talking books,who have not forgotten their duty to keep the Ways of the Bantu. Do not take lightly my words because they are recited and not written. What is said,a proverb of my people informs,lives the same eternity as that which is chiseled on a cave wall or scratched upon perchment A talking book is no less value than whose words are silent. To see history through the eyes of the Whites is nothing when you can hear it from the lips of a Griot. Here my words,for I am but vessel,a conduit through which the past is revealed." "Call me Thau-Thau Haramanuba,I am a Griot,a Master of words and memory,a keeper of the flame and the history of my people who originated in the rain forests and the Great Lakes,and beyond the distant African plains and savannas descend from the Great One I descend from the Immortal Ra-Kgoa-Le of Thobejane and trace my Ancestry back to the first African dawn. Since those primordial days my family has been the Village Griots,the talking books,who have not forgotten their duty to keep the Ways of the Bantu. Do not take lightly my words because they are recited and not written. What is said,a proverb of my people informs,lives the same eternity as that which is chiseled on a cave wall or scratched upon perchment A talking book is no less value than whose words are silent. To see history through the eyes of the Whites is nothing when you can hear it from the lips of a Griot. Here my words,for I am but vessel,a conduit through which the past is revealed."
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