Talk:Sundiata Keita

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I have two concerns about this page:

• 1. This page needs to be moved to Sundiata Keita, it's the most common spelling.
• 2. Sundiata was not mythical, he was an actual person who has living descendants (see: Salif Keita). He certainly has a mythos that surrounds him and his actual achievments have been blurred with the legends of the Sundiata Epic; Sumanguru truing into a Baobab Tree after being defeated for example.

If there are no objections I will move the page to Sundiata Keita on June 1.

-JCarriker 08:50, Jun 22, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Go Ahead

I concur. please move it. thnx Scott Free 14:11, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

-The obscene reference to oral sex is not only innapropriate, but incorrect. this bit should be deleted, along with the celebrity reference joke. this is not the place for this kind of garbage.

We apologize, it has been removed. Smmurphy^(Talk) 21:58, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dates

The first paragraph gives the dates c. 1217 to c. 1255; the birth category is given as 1190; is there a source for this birthdate? is the 1217 date a ruling date?; not my area, but would like to align the birth and death dates with their proper categories--FeanorStar7 11:08, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Not sure what this means

"Although Western historians have traditionally given preference to written records, oral traditions including the epic of Sundiata have recently gained recognition as important demonstrations of Africa’s rich cultural heritage and as legitimate literary constructions" Eh? What would an illegitimate literary construction be? If this means that the epic's cultural / literary value was formerly neglected but is now recognised, then great, but it doesn't make its historical value any greater. If, on the other hand, it means that greater historical value is now recognised in it than previously, then that must be for evidence-based reasons which have nothing to do with its literary value, and we should specify what that evidence is. Literary and historical value are separate issues. At the moment, it sounds as if the article is saying "it used to be thought inaccurate but then we realised it was a good poem". It's a total non sequitur. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.146.174.89 (talk) 16:29, 15 April 2008 (UTC)