Open AccessSogolon
Author(s) -
Guillaume Segerer,
Alexandra Vydrina
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
language in africa
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2686-8946
DOI - 10.37892/2686-8946-2020-1-4-55-68
Subject(s) - epic , hero , word (group theory) , linguistics , history , art , philosophy , literature
Sogolon is the name of the mother of Sundiata Keita, the hero of the well-known Mandinka Epic. It is also a surname given by Valentin Vydrin to his daughter Alexandra, co-author of this paper. Finally, it is a word that can be found in a couple of dictionaries of West African languages. Our purpose is to follow some of the tracks that this word opens, which will lead us to unexpected assumptions.