List of oral repositories

Examples of oral repositories
Five sangomas in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Seán Ó hEinirí, seanchaí from Mayo, Ireland
Mandinka jeli Al-Haji Papa Susso performing songs on the kora from the oral tradition of the Gambia
A manaschi performing the Epic of Manas in Karakol, Kyrgyzstan

Oral repositories are people who have been trusted with mentally recording information constituting oral tradition within a society. They serve an important role in oral cultures and illiterate societies as repositories of their culture's traditional knowledge, values, and morals.

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