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One version of the most commonly-retold folktale was recorded by Rattray in his extensive book on Akan-Ashanti folktales, [32]: 54–58 and as the tale generally goes, Anansi wanted to acquire the stories of the sky god Nyame, who held all the stories to himself.
1972 Anansi the Spider: a tale from the Ashanti (Holt, ISBN 0-8050-0311-8) 1973 The Magic Tree: a tale from the Congo; 1974 Arrow to the Sun: a Pueblo Indian tale; 1975 The Stone-cutter: a Japanese tale; 1977 The Voyage of Osiris; 1979 The Knight of the Lion; 1980 Sunflight; 1984 Daughter of Earth: a Roman myth; 1986 Daniel O'Rourke: an Irish tale
Obayifo is a vampire/witch-like mythological creature from the folklore of the Ashanti. In Ashanti folklore, obayifo are very common and may inhabit the bodies of any man or woman. They are described as having shifty eyes and being obsessed with food. When travelling at night, they are said to emit a phosphorescent light from their armpits and ...
Half-a-Ball-of-Kenki: An Ashanti Tale. With pictures by Diane Stanley Zuromskis. New York: F. Warne, 1979. Half-a-Ball-of-Kenki rescues Fly from Leopard and, in the ensuing fray, Leopard receives a spotted coat forever. How the Ostrich Got Its Long Neck; A Tale from the Akamba of Kenya. Illustrated by Marcia Brown. New York: Scholastic, 1995.
Anansi, a trickster in the folk tales of the Ashanti people of Ghana Anansi ( Static Shock ) , a hero in the cartoon series Static Shock Anansi the Spider (book) , a children's picture book by Gerald McDermott, published in 1972
The Okomfo Anokye sword site, which is legendary site of the foundation of the Ashanti Empire in Kumasi in 1701. When Osei Kofi Tutu I succeeded to the throne of the Kumaseman State between c.1680 and c.1695 (exact year unknown; although he was definitely Kumasehene by 1695) to the leadership of the small group of Akan forest states around the city of Kumasi, which were already grouped in a ...
Osei Kofi Tutu I (c. 1660 – c. 1717) was one of the founders of the Ashanti Empire, assisted by Okomfo Anokye, his chief priest and a distant relative from the town of Awukugua–Akuapem. [3] The Asante comes from the Akan ethnic group of West Africa.
The novel tells the story of two Ashanti princes, Kwame Poku and Kwasi Boachi, who were taken from what is today Ghana and given to the Dutch king William II in 1837 as a surety in a business transaction between the Dutch and Ashanti Empire. The two boys are raised and educated in the Netherlands, after which Kwame returns to Africa while Kwasi ...