lushill style, Adamu. Verily, in the time of Naré Maghann Konaté, a great Mandinka king, came a soothsaying hunter to his court. The hunter spake thus: if Konaté were to wed an ugly woman, a son would be born of her who would one day become a mighty king. Konaté, who had already taken Sassouma Bereté as his wife and sired a son, Dankaran Toumani Keïta, didst remember the prophecy when two hunters from the Do kingdom presented him an ugly hunchbacked woman named Sogolon. He didst take her as his wife and a son was born unto them, Sundiata Keita, who was unable to walk in his childhood. Sassouma didst harbor jealousy and didst mock the boy for his weakness and his mother's ugliness.

Upon the death of Naré Maghann Konaté, his first son Dankaran Tuman didst assume the throne against the wishes of his father. Sundiata, his mother, and two sisters didst suffer the wrath of the new king and his mother and were driven into exile in the Mema kingdom. While in exile, Sundiata didst grow strong and fight alongside the greatest general of the Mema people. He was made heir to the Mema throne, but at the encouragement of his mother, didst return to fulfill his destiny and reclaim the Mandinka kingdom.

The cruel sorcerer king Soumaoro Kanté of the Sosso people had conquered the former Ghana Empire and didst attack the Mandinka kingdom, causing Dankaran Toumani to flee. The oppressed Mandinka people didst call forth Sundiata from exile and with a coalition of neighboring kingdoms, he didst wage war against the Sosso and was crowned "Mansa" or "king of kings". He didst set about organizing the empire and establishing a model for governance that would guide the empire to greatness. The exploits of Sundiata were compared to those of Alexander the Great by some griots and his legacy was etched into the annals of African history.
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