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Written in Modern Akan by kasahorow. Includes a short Akan-English, English-Akan dictionary.
Author : Kasahorow
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 25,43 MB
Release : 2019-11-02
Category :
ISBN : 9781704796185
Written in Modern Akan by kasahorow. Includes a short Akan-English, English-Akan dictionary.
Author : Collected by Martha Warren Beckwith
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 35,78 MB
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1465517057
Author : R. S Rattray
Publisher : Prince Sarfo-Adu
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 21,8 MB
Release : 2023-08-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN :
This is a collection of 75 Ashanti tales recorded in the Ashanti and Kwawu areas of Ghana.Each folktale in Twi/Akan dialect of the Tshi language, is followed by an English translation. The English translation is, throughout, made as nearly literal as possible.(At this point, one meets a certain difficulty in a conflict between a desire for accuracy and an endeavour to give a translation acceptable to English ears). First published in 1930 by R.S. Rattray, this edition features a modern Akan/Twi orthography with a brief introduction to the Language. Ashanti folktales often tell a moral lesson, describe a myth, or answer a question about the natural world. Most of the Ashanti tales use animal characters to represent human qualities such as jealousy, honesty, greed, and bravery. Ananse, the spider, is a trickster figure who appears in many of the Ashanti tales. With regard to the classification of these stories, it will be observed that the majority of them fall under one or other of the well-known headings: drolls and cumulative tales; apologues or tales with a moral; aetiological stories, accounting for physical characteristics in men and beasts, e.g. How the Leopard became Spotted; etymological tales, e.g. "How the Ram came to be called Odwanini". Each and all of the stories in this volume would, however, be classed by the Akan-speaking African under the generic title of “Anansesɛm” (Spider stories), whether the spider appeared in the tale or not.
Author : Kasahorow
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 30,38 MB
Release : 2016-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781535126175
Akan for children! Read aloud an Ananse story together, in English or Akan! Written in simplified Modern Akan for children. A perfect gift to get children off to a great start in life by learning two languages at the same time: Akan and English. Suitable for multlingual children 0 to 7 years old. Get the paper version so that toddlers can colour in the illustrations too. INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE Keep WITHIN REACH of children: )
Author : Adwoa Badoe
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,52 MB
Release : 2008-12
Category : Picture books for children
ISBN : 9780888998699
A collection of ten stories about the trickster spider god, Ananse. Sometimes things go Ananse's way and other times he makes a fool of himself and is ashamed-but never for very long. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.
Author : A. Sakyiama
Publisher : Pepper Pot Books
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 28,35 MB
Release : 2018-12-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
The trickster is on a mission! He is most certainly cunning and clever, but is Kweku Ananse the most clever of all? Well, he thinks so and in Today‘s Water, he sets out to prove it! Along the way, we find out why the sky is far from the ground and how it came about that all stories are Ananse stories. Enjoy this collection of folktales from the Asante people of Ghana, featuring Kweku Ananse, who is sometimes a man and sometimes a spider. keywords: African Folktales, Ananse the spider, Ananse story, trickster, Ghana, Anansi
Author : Efua Theodora Morgue Sutherland
Publisher :
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 50,62 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Ghana
ISBN : 9780894101625
Author :
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 48,17 MB
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0822567415
Long ago in Africa, the sky god Nyame keeps all of the stories to himself, but when Anansi the spider asks their price, Nyame agrees to trade his stories if Anansi can perform four seemingly impossible tasks.
Author : K. P. Kojo
Publisher : Lincoln Children's Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,46 MB
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781847801630
Here are seven Ananse stories from Ghana pulsating with mischievous animals, a touch of moral message and, peeping out wickedly above them all, Ananse the trickster spider. The original title story, The Parade, telling why Ananse became a trickster in the first place, is a worthy opener to six traditional stories including the favourites Ananse and the Sky God and Ananse and the Hat of Beans. For centuries, Ananse stories have been used in Ghana and the Caribbean to entertain children and teach them good behaviour - and with their vibrant sense of fun and cunning, these stories are sure to have enduring appeal.
Author : Judith Annancy
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 27,21 MB
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1477109595
Kwaku Ananse stories are folk tales from Ghana. Ananse is a Twi word and it means spider. Anansesem simply means stories about Ananse.