A modern griot shares ancient wisdom

The World

Singer and storyteller Kaito Winse was born in a small village in the Sourou region of northern Burkina Faso. He was born into a family of griots, a keeper of oral traditions that are steeped in his ancestor’s history. As a modern griot, Kaito is sharing some of these stories and proverbs with listeners far from his village on his new EP, “Reele Bumbou.”

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