{"id":1651,"date":"2008-01-12T06:57:40","date_gmt":"2008-01-12T14:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willdoherty.org\/wordpress\/?p=1651"},"modified":"2024-09-21T21:55:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T21:55:10","slug":"griot-convergence-in-timbuktu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/?p=1651","title":{"rendered":"Griot Convergence in Timbuktu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!-- Griot Convergence in Timbuktu -->January 12, 2008, Hotel Boctou, Timbuktu, Mali<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2008\/03\/DSCN2863-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2008\/03\/DSCN2863-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2008\/03\/DSCN2863-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2008\/03\/DSCN2863-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2008\/03\/DSCN2863.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Boubakar Tour\u00e9, the owner of the Hotel Boctou, told me that there had been a conference in December 2007 on griots at the hotel here in Timbuktu. He mentioned that a fellow named Paul Raukin has been gathering stories in Timbuktu aided by a guide named Azima. He also mentioned Madame Tour\u00e9 Zalia-Ma\u00efga, at the University of Arizona at Tempe. And a fellow named Salem Ould el Hajh (tel. 9407926) has English translations of the transcripts of the griots who spoke in Songha\u00ef (or Songhui or ???) and Tamchek languages at the conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Travelers Joshua and Heather Tallis, who I met on the route from Essakane to Timbuktu, recommended reading the books entitled <em>Salt<\/em> and <em>Cod<\/em>, as well as a book called <em>Timbuktu<\/em> by Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 12, 2008, Hotel Boctou, Timbuktu, Mali Boubakar Tour\u00e9, the owner of the Hotel Boctou, told me that there had been a conference in December 2007 on griots at the hotel here in Timbuktu. He mentioned that a fellow named &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/?p=1651\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,109,135,138,250,228],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-history","category-literature","category-mali","category-stardusts-research","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15386,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions\/15386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}