2. Anansi and the Impossible Quest

Welcome to the Global Storytime Podcast! Every two weeks I will bring a story from a different corner of the world so that we can get a glimpse into another place and culture. I will do my best to explain the potentially unfamiliar to provide context and will end each episode with some information about the country so we can get to know it better!

This week I bring you a story from Ghana. Anansi and the Impossible Quest is one of the many folktales that feature the legendary figure and here, Kwaku Anansi, the spider-man. This spider-man is different from the American Marvel superhero and can be depicted in a few different ways. Sometimes he’as regular storybook talking spider, sometimes he’s a spider the size of a human, in this story he’s more like a human with some extra limbs. He is clever and resourceful, two characteristics that will serve him well on this Impossible Quest! The retelling of this timeless tale based on Gcina Mhlophe’s African Tales: A Barefoot Collection.

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All sound effects and music fall under a Creative Commons 0 license and were found on freesounds.com or the Youtube Free Library.
Intro/transition Song: ‘High Life’ unknown artist
Closing Song: Celebration recorded in Apinamang, Ghana. Recorded by ikbenraar.