griot vs storyteller

griot and storyteller both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
griot	Yes	No	No	No
storyteller	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, storyteller is a hypernym of griot; that is, storyteller is a word with a broader meaning than griot:

griot: a storyteller in West Africa; perpetuates the oral traditions of a family or village
storyteller: someone who tells a story

Other hypernyms of griot include narrator, teller.

griot (noun)	storyteller (noun)
a storyteller in West Africa; perpetuates the oral traditions of a family or village	someone who tells a story
	someone who tells lies