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as the title of the article --- Qoussa/Qussa being a generic Arabic term for a storyteller, as I understand, that means the article is called "Massa the storyteller"). Massa Qoussa may just be an average travelling entertainer --- some of whom are notable, others who are not. (And I have no objection to the default assumption that someone is non-notable unless sources are provided to show otherwise). But it's extremely premature to call "hoax" (IMO a violation of
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amongst common nonacademic people. The spelling Qoussa differs from the word qussa, but this spelling have many possibbilities in arab and muslim-afro countries, QoussaĂŻ being a common one, and as well as Qoussa a traditional name for a storyteller. But again, no authorised documentation, so untill then, please delete.
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Hello, and thank you for the discoussion. I am sorry to have taken your time with this folkloristic person or person. I have heard about him so many places in the muslim world, so he can not be one single person, but I never actually met a Massa Qoussa. Notability is unprovidable, since he is moving
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can be provided to establish notability. I don't think it's a hoax, but I'm not sure whether the subject is a real person - "legendary" could mean an archetypal wandering story-teller about whom there are legends, rather than a real one who is famous.
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Roman alphabet language internet search of a single French-style transcription of the name of an
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Clear hoax. Google returns big fat goose egg. Prod removed by author.
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Sorry, it sshould be: person or persons. Written by author, Nyamhawa.--
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