Djata's line at Kankigné is stretched like a "piece of elastic" by a "rain" of this material, which is monopolized by the Koromas, or Sissoko, after the tribes are divided during the Kouroukan Fougan.
In the Song of Ocol, Ocol's jealous wife claims that she "[does] not block his path" from building a house of this material for the modern girl Clementine. Djata's line at Kankigné is stretched like a "piece of elastic" by a "rain" of this material, which is monopolized by the Koromas, or Sissoko, after the tribes are divided during the Kouroukan Fougan. Christopher Okigbo's "Elegy for Alto" uses this material to describe a "dawn" of "new stars" and a "dance of mortars." Objects made of this material are the subject of South African (*) stimela poems. After Farakourou creates a rod of this material, a crawling child takes his first steps to lift it vertically, leading Balla Fasséké to sing the 'Hymn to the Bow.' One character is invulnerable to this material until he is shot with a cockspur arrow by Sogolon. Soumaoro cannot be harmed by this material, whose craft is reserved to a caste of "sons of fire" with a reputation for sorcery in The Epic of Sundiata. For 10 points, name this material worked by blacksmiths.
In the Song of Ocol, Ocol's jealous wife claims that she "[does] not block his path" from building a house of this material for the modern girl Clementine.
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