Legend

West African Folk-Tales

by W. H. Barker

Stories from the Gold Coast, now Ghana, many of them about Anansi the spider, the Akan trickster to whom, it is said, all stories belong. W. H. Barker and Cecilia Sinclair gathered them and published them in 1917. Anansi’s stories crossed the Atlantic and are still told in the Caribbean.

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Reading time

About 1 hr 50 min

Where to find it

The African Reading Room

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #66923. In the public domain in the United States.