Related Words for griot

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storyteller
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kora
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Noun
senegalese
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creole
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Noun
wolof
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Name
troubadour
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Noun
hausa
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Name
folktale
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Noun
dogon
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Name
shaman
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Noun
negritude
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Noun
malagasy
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Name
trinidadian
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Name
folklorist
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Noun
congo
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Name
swahili
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Name
vodou
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Noun
gullah
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Name
chiefdom
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Noun
musician
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Noun
calabash
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Noun
gumbo
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Noun
kiswahili
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Name
humorist
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Noun
poet
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Noun
ethnographer
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Noun
historian
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Noun
lyricist
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Noun
itinerant
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Adjective
chronicler
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Noun
rhetorician
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Noun
scribe
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Noun
sings
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Verb
african
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Adjective
west
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Adjective
tradition
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Noun
role
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Noun
modern
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Adjective
told
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Verb
old
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Adjective
said
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Verb
caste
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Noun
women
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Noun
aboriginal
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Adjective, Name
aborigines
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Noun
akan
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Name, Adjective
alchemist
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Noun
amerindian
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Adjective, Name
aristocratic
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Adjective
artisan
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Noun, Adjective
artists
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Adjective
ashkenazic
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Adjective
assamese
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Name, Adjective
doctor
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Noun, Verb
fetish
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Noun
hakka
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Name, Adjective
hawaiian
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Name, Adjective
herbalist
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Noun
hero
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Noun
jamaican
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Adjective, Name
literati
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Noun
mandarin
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Noun, Adjective
midwife
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Noun, Verb
pioneers
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Verb
presbyter
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Noun
saint
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Noun, Verb
samoan
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Name, Adjective
sephardic
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Adjective
soothsayer
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Noun
untouchable
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Adjective, Noun
yoruba
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Name
cloth
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Noun
idiomatic
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Adjective, Noun
expression
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Noun
headlines
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Noun
vernacular
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Noun, Adjective
oh
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Noun, Verb
maypole
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Noun, Verb
girly
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Adjective, Noun
standard
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Adjective, Noun
dialect
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Noun
milestone
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Noun, Verb
literally
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Adverb
chunk
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Noun, Verb
cluster
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Noun, Verb
collocation
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Noun