web02.fireside.fm Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:07:41 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Global Storytime Podcast - Episodes Tagged with “West Africa” https://globalstorytimepodcast.fireside.fm/tags/west%20africa Sun, 11 Oct 2020 07:00:00 -0700 Welcome to the Global Storytime Podcast! Every two weeks I release a pair of episodes that help us explore another corner of the world. The first episode is a story from a different country or culture that is perfect for listeners young and old. The second episode shares the history, languages, favorite foods and sports, and more from the country or culture featured. So grab a blanket, a stuffie, or a cup of tea and settle in for our journey. Are you ready? Let's go! en-us episodic Folktales from around the world. World Wise Kids Welcome to the Global Storytime Podcast! Every two weeks I release a pair of episodes that help us explore another corner of the world. The first episode is a story from a different country or culture that is perfect for listeners young and old. The second episode shares the history, languages, favorite foods and sports, and more from the country or culture featured. So grab a blanket, a stuffie, or a cup of tea and settle in for our journey. Are you ready? Let's go! no World Wise Kids dianedeette@gmail.com 2. Anansi and the Impossible Quest https://globalstorytimepodcast.fireside.fm/2 b516209b-7f35-44bd-9e3a-cd9b663c930d Sun, 11 Oct 2020 07:00:00 -0700 World Wise Kids full World Wise Kids This episode's story comes from Ghana! 21:21 no 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. Comments or critiques are sooo welcome. You can email the show at globalstorytimepodcast@gmail.com. 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. ghana, folktale, anani, west africa 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.

Comments or critiques are sooo welcome. You can email the show at globalstorytimepodcast@gmail.com.

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.

]]> 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.

Comments or critiques are sooo welcome. You can email the show at globalstorytimepodcast@gmail.com.

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.

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