Fa-Digi Sisoko Analysis

Fa-Digi Sisoko is who tells the version o epic in our textbook Fata Magan the Handsome: father of Son-Jara, settles in Kamalen the center of the later Manding Kingdom. A jinni appears to Fata Magan and tells him he should wed an ugly maid who is with two youths; the ugly maid will bear him a son who will rule Manding. Magan gives his sister, Nakana Taliba later appears as a principal Queen of Darkness, and a rare token in exchange for Sugulun Konde, the ugly maid. Sugulun Konde called "the Konde woman the ugly maid, mother of Son-Jara, traveling with the Taraweres, who trade her for Nakana Taliba. Saman Berete "the Berete woman" gives birth to Dankaran Tuman just before Sugulun Konde births Son-Jara. News of Son-Jara's birth reaches Fata Magan
Son-Jara's mother cooks special food to help him walk. She tries to get baobab leaves from neighboring women who all refused to share theirs. Son-Jara orders a staff from the blacksmith patriarchs but can't use it to rise. A taller staff also fails. Then Sugulun makes a staff from a custard apple tree. With it he rises, then walks. He shakes a Baobab tree three times, each time shaking a boy out of the tree. The first breaks a leg, the second an arm, the third his neck. Son-Jara pulls up the tree and plants it in his mother's yard and tells her that from now on anyone wanting Baobab leaves will have to ask her permission, for she controls them all. Dankaran Tuman asks his mother not to disturb their family, but she kept plotting. Son-Jara takes a fierce dog with a weight around its neck . The dog tore up Dankaran Tuman's toothless dog. The Berete woman banishes Son-Jara with his mother and 2 siblings (sister Sugulun Kulukan, who later helped defeat Sumamuru by becoming his mistress and learning the magic that could defeat him; also brother Manden Bukari). Wherever Son-Jara and family go, they are thrown out. They go to the nine Queens-of- Darkness, which include Nakana
Son-Jara remembers that his mother had given the boatman her silver bracelet in exchange for a future favor, and Son-Jara calls in the favor to get across the river. Son-Jara attacks Sumamuru and is driven off. He then founds the town called Anguish. The second attack also fails, and he founds the town called Resolve. The third time he is driven off Son-Jara founds the town called Sharing. Son-Jara's sister Sugulun Kulunkan says she would help with the war. She goes to the Susu king who, in his arrogance, admits to her that he could be beat by a ritual involving digging up peanut plants and throwing them at a fortress. Sumamuru's mother warns him not to tell women such secrets. He cuts off his mother's breast, and she disowned him as her son. Kulunkan takes the information to her