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they would be captured and after they united so they could
brought back into line. (Naamu) combine their strength, (Naamu)
He was never captured or all of those kings, (Naamu)
defeated in war. (Naamu) when it was time for one of them
if you are narrating a history, (Naamu) to rule, (Naamu)
tell it the way it happened. (Naamu) the seven regions would unite, (Naamu)
from the time my eyes were first they would help him with his
open up to now, (Naamu) kingship, (Naamu)
None of our elders have ever Up to the end of his reign. (Naamu)
told us, But for war to break out, (Naamu)
that these people were captured it was because of susu
by any battle commander. (Naamu) sumanguru. (Naamu)
the next to that is the ancestor of (You heard it?)
the danaba, susu sumanguru was the sixth
tenen mansa Konkon of Kirina. (Naamu) mansa of manden. (Naamu)
He descended from the the seventh mansa was ma’an
Kamissoko. (Naamu) sunjata. (Naamu)
He also did well with manden. (Naamu) <h=
from beginning to end of
his reign, sunjata’s father maghan Konfara
He was the walking stick that was the mansa. (Naamu)
manden leaned on. (Naamu) after the reigns of all those other
(You heard it?) (Naamu) people,
it is God who chooses from
<h= among the people. (Naamu)
Now in the meeting that took
all those that i have just place, (Naamu)
counted, (Naamu) the country was put in the care
No battle commander ever of maghan Konfara. (Naamu)
captured them. (Naamu) this is about how sunjata was
anyone who rebelled against born. (Naamu)
these people, (Naamu)
after they made their laws… (source: conrad, david c., editor. Sunjata: A
West African Epic of the Mande Peoples.
that brought progress to indianapolis and cambridge: Hackett
manden, (Naamu) publishing company, 2004.)