Yelibas in A Koinadugu King's Court - Make Sierra Leone Famous Podcast

Yelibas are Sierra Leone’s oral historians belonging to a long line of griots of the Mande tradition. In this new episode of the Make Sierra Leone Famous Podcast we travel to Northern Sierra Leone to meet the Yelibas of Koindugu’s highest court.

In conversation with Medo Kuyateh and Alpha Kandeh, Yeliba Praise Singers from the Court of  King Alie Balansama Marah III of Koinadugu District, Northern Province. We discuss Sierra Leone’s Yeliba Culture, Oral History, the mythical origin of the Balangi. Yeliba singers keep the history of kings also known as paramount chiefs through song and spoken word; from one generation to the next.

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