# What does open-access scholarship say about griot-informed oral storytelling in West African screen narratives, and what limits does it state?

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- updated: 2026-10-23T16:03:36.111Z
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A 2022 University of Cape Town PhD thesis reviews scholarship that likens West African filmmakers to griots and proposes a model of how filmmakers mediate oral tradition, analysed through three films chosen because they adapt literature drawn from oral tradition (Xala, Karmen Gei, Invasion 1897). The griot comparison is a cited scholarly interpretation, and the selected sample cannot stand for West African cinema generally; no production workflow is documented.

A 2022 University of Cape Town PhD thesis reviews scholarship that likens West African filmmakers to griots and proposes a model of how filmmakers mediate oral tradition, analysed through three films chosen because they adapt literature drawn from oral tradition (Xala, Karmen Gei, Invasion 1897). The griot comparison is a cited scholarly interpretation, and the selected sample cannot stand for West African cinema generally; no production workflow is documented.

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- [sourced_fact] A 2022 University of Cape Town PhD thesis reviews scholarship that likens West African filmmakers to griots and proposes a model of how filmmakers mediate oral tradition, analysed through three films chosen because they adapt literature drawn from oral tradition (Xala, Karmen Gei, Invasion 1897). The griot comparison is a cited scholarly interpretation, and the selected sample cannot stand for West African cinema generally; no production workflow is documented. · locator: [producer working copy; not public] sha256 3166d361150c0557 (equal to pin S19); pdftotext lines 54, 220, 936-937, 1520 · source: https://open.uct.ac.za/bitstreams/bec43b92-7ee7-4a80-861d-a1261497b8f3/download

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