Reading Notes: West African Folktales Part A
The collection of stories for Anansi seem to follow a similar trend revolving around food for the most part. Anansi is always looking at how to get everything for himself and in the end seems to always lose. These stories so far have been humorous seeing something put so much effort into the tricks, lies and deceit to gain an advantage to only fail in the end. If Anansi had a little more patience and actually thought things through a little more carefully he could have been a lot worse of a threat than he was.
West African Folktales by William H. Barker and Cecilia Sinclair, with drawings by Cecilia Sinclair (1917). Part A
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