SOURCE: Sienkewicz, Thomas J. “The Greeks Are Indeed Like the Others: Myth and Society in the West African Sunjata.” In Myth and the Polis, edited by Dora C. Pozzi and John M. Wickersham, pp. 182-202. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1991.
In the following essay, Sienkewicz discusses similarities between the Sunjata and Greek myths, particularly in addressing the “tension between diversity and unity.”
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