Evidence type: Oral tradition
Anansi the spider, the clever trickster of Akan storytelling, gathers the world’s wisdom into a clay pot to keep it for himself, and is outwitted by his own son. That, the tale says, is how wisdom came to be shared by everyone. Anansi stories travelled from Ghana across Africa and, with the diaspora, to the Caribbean and the Americas.
Read and listen to this Ghanaian folktale in Amharic on Storybooks African Languages: a West African tale told in an East African language.
A Ghanaian folktale; illustrated by Wiehan de Jager; translated into Amharic by Mezemir Girma; read by Abenezer Chane. Originally published by the African Storybook.