 Prose authors sought ways of "embellishing and enriching" their narratives.Senegalese author Birago Diop, who published "Tales of Amadou Koumba" in 1947, was one of the forerunners in this genre.Diop, however, rendered tales by one particular griot; Dadié chose to dispense with some aspects of tradition—he did away with some of the traditional structural devices (such as the lengthy introductory and closing formulas), and some of his stories were original creations.