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Everything that came to know on the bardic art in Western Africa and its origin proves that primarily it was a poem. Gassier’s Lute is a legend from the Sudan of West Africa, which clearly demonstrates the presence of the heroic epic, in its present form, at least as old as the seventeenth century.

A rousing tale of wars and heroes, Gassire’s Lute recounts the fall of the Soninke city-state Wagadu and tells how Gassire, warrior son of the ruling family of Dierra (Fasa Dynasty), renounced his noble birth to become his people’s first bard. This epic originally with unknown oral literature is rich in historical and cultural interest. The epic shows clearly the universality of art and of human experience.

Epic- In Brief

Gassire's Lute is a fragment of an ancient Soninke epic that implies to narrate Soninke dynastic history. Leo Foerbenius collected it in 1909 from a Soninke bard living in northern Dahomey, and recreated from the content that includes circumstances of Soninke dynasty successions, dispersions, and migrations in the time-honored anthropological response to such legends.

“Gassire was a prince, the successor of the Fasa Dynasty”, grew tired of waiting for the King (his father) to die. Gassire wants to be king and on approaching a fortune-teller, he got the information that he would never be king after the death of his father, and the empire will fall. Gassire will have to throw away his quest to be king to play the lute. In the meantime, Gassire heard a guinea fowl singing in triumph at his victory over a snake and thus understood the power of song. Gassire went to a smith who made him a lute. When he tried to play the lute, it did not produce any sound. He heard that it could only be played if he goes into battle and the lute will only work if the bearer experiences loss. Gassire went into battle and each day one of his sons died and he bore the body home on his back, the blood running over the lute. Seven of his sons died, but the lute still not played. Finally, Gassire was exiled because of his violence and disregard for his family, and there in the wilderness of dessert, the lute began to sing.