 They included, for example, the "garanke" (leather workers) below the "fune" (bard), the "fune" below the "gesere" or "jeli" (griots, singers), the "jeli" below the "tage" or "numu" (smiths, pottery workers).The Susu people are a West African ethnic group, one of the Mandé peoples living primarily in Guinea.Influential in Guinea, smaller communities of Susu people are also found in the neighboring Sierra Leone and Guinea-Bissau.