EP 79: Ghana- Tit for Tat and Why The White Ants Always Harm Man's Property

In the first Anansi story, there is a great famine. Everyone is looking for food. Anansi's son, Kweku Tsin is able to find food, but declines to tell his father where because he knows of his father's greed. Well, by trickery, Anansi learns where the meat is and plans to make himself fat. To get back at him, Kweku Tsin tries to convince Anansi that the gods are mad at him. Will it work? In the second story, Anansi is pretending to take his dead grandfather's body home, when really it is a dead antelope. Wolf and Leopard think he is being tricky, so they scare him and take the meat away. How does Anansi get revenge? He hangs them from a tree and eats a feast in front of them. The white ant (termite) cuts them down, but Anansi still gets another one over on them. Why is the white ant so mad? Listen and find out. Source: West African folk-tales collected by Barker, William Henry Narrator: Dustin Steichmann Sound Effects: Night Frogs recorded by Dustin Steichmann Music: Kpanlogo at Brandeis University - A Taste of Ghana Francis Kofi Akotuah Creative Commons Podcaster shout out: Lexitecture  You’ve found the online home of your new favourite source of random etymology from a pair of language geeks from either side of The Pond. Listener shout out: Istanbul Turkey. Language: Turkish teşekkürler ve iyi geceler Thank you and goodnight.