Dakar roundtable explores Bocar Niang’s Musée griot.tes

THE STORY, IN BRIEF

APS reported on a Dakar discussion about Bocar Niang’s planned Musée griot.tes in Tambacounda, connecting oral traditions with contemporary art and museum practice. Niang described a resource space for griots, griottes, artists and researchers, while curator El Hadji Malick Ndiaye considered how museums might document performance and other living practices. The project’s inauguration was announced for 3 December; the roundtable examined its approach to preserving and transmitting memory.

Summarised from Agence de Presse Sénégalaise · Moussa Konte. AFROSCOPE Daily has not independently reported this story.