Griots are having a moment. A griot is a storyteller who preserves and passes down history in stories and poems and songs.

South Africa's Sterkfontein caves, home to early human fossils, reopened after three years, offering tourists a chance to engage with live scientific research. Seated on sandbags in a knee-deep ...

It's perceived as the end of independent African kingdoms before colonialism ... the instrument that griots use to sing about that history. GALISSA: (Through interpreter) This instrument is ...

It's perceived as the end of independent African kingdoms before colonialism ... (SOUNDBITE OF KORA MUSIC) DANIEL: This is the kora, the instrument that griots use to sing about that history. GALISSA: ...