KMT: In the House of Life

KMT: In the House of Life is a novel about memory and African history. It's based on research into the role of keepers of social memory in African society. Today these are academic intellectuals. In feudal Africa they were griots and spokespersons, and in ancient Egypt (known to the inhabitants themselves as KMT) they were scribes. Though these three groups have conventionally been thought of as unrelated or only tenuously connected, current research, especially from Francophone historians and Egyptologists, makes it possible to see professional, thematic and philosophical connections between them. The novel investigates these ties.