Kela near Kangaba (Bamako area) is the most famous craddle of the Manding jèlílua jèlí (plural, jèlílu) is a bard, loremaster, and praise-singer in the Manding areas whose functions are story-telling, speaking about lineages, singing and playing music as he want and hear it... Read more. ; every Belen-Tigi (jèlílua jèlí (plural, jèlílu) is a bard, loremaster, and praise-singer in the Manding areas whose functions are story-telling, speaking about lineages, singing and playing music as he want and hear it... Read more. Chief ) ought to be honored to have learnt the « Djeliya » (art of the jèlílua jèlí (plural, jèlílu) is a bard, loremaster, and praise-singer in the Manding areas whose functions are story-telling, speaking about lineages, singing and playing music as he want and hear it... Read more. ) in Kela.

That village settled by the Diabaté jèlílua jèlí (plural, jèlílu) is a bard, loremaster, and praise-singer in the Manding areas whose functions are story-telling, speaking about lineages, singing and playing music as he want and hear it... Read more. , is today a traditionalist center, where Manding history and art of speech are taught..

The Diabaté from Kela are a great clan and their fame has made Kela, a little township of 2.000 people, famous. Here is a simple genealogy table of the most famous Diabaté jèlílu from Kela.

Simple genealogy  following Jan Jansen in « A tribute to Siramori Diabaté », Research in African Litteratures, 1996 [bibliography]