Why were storytellers important in african society

Storytellers were important in African society as well as other societies around the world where written records were not regularly used. Storytellers kept oral histories alive and allowed the passage of information from generation to generation. 

During the paleolithic, hominins grouped together in small societies such as bands, and subsisted by gathering  plants  and fishing, hunting or scavenging wild  animals. the paleolithic is characterized by the use of knapped stone tools, although at the time humans also used  wood  and bone tools.