Assignment task: Read the excerpt titled Epic of Sundiata in the document/sources reader assigned for the class.
Post your responses to the reading and discussion questions at the end of the excerpt in essay format.
Q1. Describe the wedding ceremony.
Q2. What does the passage tell you about religious beliefs in thirteenth-century Mali? How might a Muslim Malian listener from this time period have responded to this portion of the epic?
After the third question/prompt, address these as well:
- What does that tell us about the culture's attitudes toward women? Why?
- What concerns should an educated person have about this article, based on the source?