SOUNDIATA & EPOPEE ( FRENCH )

WE ARE AT THE END OF THE 12 TH CENTURY IN BROAD HEART OF SAHEL SOUDAN, AT THE TIME FOLLOWING A DECLINE OF ALMORAVID'S DYNASTY THAT REGION WAS POPULATED BY MULTIPLE SMALL KINGDOMS FIGHTING FOR POWER. SO IN THAT CLOUDY CONTEXT EMERGED SOSO KINGDOM LED BY THE SONINKE CLAN OF THE KANTE'S WITH HIS LEADER SOUMANGOUROU KANTE. THIS KING INVENTED A FAMOUS MUSICAL INSTRUMENT. HOWEVER THE INHABITANTS OF MANDE DECIDED TO RESIST TO SOUMANGOUROU. THEY CALL ON SOUNDIATA KEITA. SOUNDIATA WAS MEMBER OF THE MANDE REIGNER FAMILY BUT WAS PUSH ASIDE BECAUSE OF POLITICAL MANIPULATIONS. SOUNDIATA KEITA DEFEATED SOUMANGOUROU KANTE ET BECAME THE MOST REFORMER OF MANDE'S EMPIRE AND PIONEER OF TRADITIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS. Face a la puissance militaire de SOUMANGOUROU, SOUNDIATA KEITA, un membre de la famille regnante du MANDE avait ete ecarte du trone a cause des manigances politiques. Il deviendra Empereur du MALI et un pionnier des droits de l'homme.