Viewpoint on Griots of Africa

In my opinion I believe history would be more memorable if it were to be passed down the way the African Griots had done. Though this may be, there are issues with this method of preserving history. One of these issues concern the originality of the story, which means that when a story is being passed down from generation to generation, variations may be added to the original story to make it more easier to express. This depreciation of the originality of the concepts/events that have cured in history may ultimately lead to false interpretations of the story. Therefore, even though it would be more well known through words, by having it in text would preserve the accuracy of history as it happened. Thus I would not really like to learn history the way the Griots did, and would instead prefer history in text.