West African Folk Tales by William H. Barker
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West African Folk Tales by William H. Barker is a arts podcast hosted by Loyal Books. It has 35 episodes, with the latest published January 2026.
Compiled by an American missionary, West African Folk Tales by William H Barker is a delightful collection of folk tales from Nigeria, Ghana, Mali, Mauritania and other countries along the west coast of Africa. These stories spread in various forms to other countries like the West Indies, Suriname, the Netherland Antilles, etc and can be still heard today among the people of these countries.West African Folk Tales is a wonderful read for both young people and older readers alike. The stories are charmingly retold. Most of them are about Anansi, the trickster god of the West African people. He is worshiped as the god of all stories and often takes the form of a spider, which is considered to be very cunning. Anansi the Spider sometimes has a human face, wears clothes or assumes human form but keeps his eight legs. The first story in this book tells of how the Anansi tales originated. In the olden days, goes the tale, all stories were only about Nyankupon the chief of gods. But Anansi
arts ·en-us ·35 episodes
01 – How We Got The Name Spider Tales
02 – How Wisdom Became The Property Of The Human Race
03 – Anansi and Nothing
04 – Thunder and Anansi
05 – Why the Lizard Continually Moves his Head up and Down
06 – Tit For Tat
07 – Why White Ants Always Harm Man’s Property
08 – The Squirrel and the Spider
09 – Why We See Ants Carrying Bundles As Big As Themselves
10 – Why Spiders are Always Found in Corners
11 – Anansi and the Blind Fisherman
12 – Adzanumee and her Mother
13 – The Grinding-stone that Ground Flour by Itself
14 – Morning Sunrise
15 – Why the Sea-turtle When Caught Beats Its Breast with Its Forelegs
16 – How Beasts And Serpents First Came Into The World
17 – Honourable Minu
18 – Why the Moon and Stars Get Light from the Sun
19 – Ohia and the Thieving Deer
20 – How the Tortoise got its Shell
21 – The Hunter and the Tortoise
22 – Kwofi and the Gods
23 – The Lion and the Wolf
24 – Maku Mawu and Maku Fia
25 – The Robber and the Old Man
26 – The Leopard and the Ram
27 – Why the Leopard Can Only Catch Prey on Its Left Side
28 – Quarcoo Bah-Boni
29 – King Chameleon and the Animals
30 – To Lose an Elephant for the Sake of a Wren is a Very Foolish Thing to Do
31 – The Ungrateful Man
32 – Why Tigers never Attack Men Unless they are Provoked
33 – The Omanhene Who Liked Riddles
34 – How Mushrooms First Grew
35 – Farmer Mybrow and the Fairies
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