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Anansi
Akan (Ghana)
“spider”
Where it comes from
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The Legend
Anansi the trickster spider is one of the most widely told figures in West African oral tradition, and his stories traveled to the Caribbean and Americas through the transatlantic slave trade, surviving in new forms.
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