II.2. CURBS ON GAIN THAT VILLAGERS IMPOSE

GRIOTS, MUSICIANS WHO FIRST APPEARED AT THE EMPEROR OF MALI'S 13th-CENTURY COURT... 

are part of celebrations, are messengers, retain oral history...

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Griots accompany a chief, Mali, early 20th century; they will sing his praises.

...and may follow the newly rich, chanting acclaim that gradually becomes mockery of their servile origins until they give the expected tip* — that is, until they distribute funds they might otherwise invest.  

*An anthropologist's account. I did not note the reference.

Expecting immigrants to distribute presents 

when they return to their villages 

and pestering them if don't do so enough: 

same idea. 

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2.3.

The grandiose destruction of wealth