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The site provides information on, and storytelling venues with, the folkloric hero Anansi the Spider-Man. He is the main historic character in tales that traveled from the Akan-speakers of Ghana, West Africa (Ashanti). His fame has spread throughout the Caribbean, North, Central and South America, wherever the Akan-speakers and some of their neighbors went. There are many books on Anansi and his stories, some have received literary honors. AnansiStories are part of an ancient mythology that is rooted in West African folklore and concerns theinteraction between divine and semi-divine beings, royalty, humans, animals, plants and seeminglyinanimate objects. These stories continue to provide a moral foundation for the community. Anansi theSpider-man existed from the time when deities, humans and animals were able to converse with each other.
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