LSE4328020 Sambou, the griot of Niantanso (Mali) (Malinke type: West African language (Guinee, Senegal, Mali and Cote d\'Ivoire), poet, musician, historian and storyteller, griot is the depositary of the collective memory of a people. Engravure to illustrate the story of Lieutenant Mage\'s voyage in Western Sudan between 1863 and 1866, published in ???e tour du monde, nouveau journal des voyages??????under the direction of Edouard Charton, 1868, Paris. Selva Collection. by Unknown Artist, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Sambou, the griot of Niantanso (Mali) (Malinke type: West African language (Guinee, Senegal, Mali and Cote d\'Ivoire), poet, musician, historian and storyteller, griot is the depositary of the collective memory of a people. Engravure to illustrate the story of Lieutenant Mage\'s voyage in Western Sudan between 1863 and 1866, published in ???e tour du monde, nouveau journal des voyages??????under the direction of Edouard Charton, 1868, Paris. Selva Collection.); Photo by Leonard de Selva.