In “Anansi’s Gold,” Yepoka Yeebo delves into the origins of a venerable scam — and the man who got away with it for decades. ... Anansi’s stories wouldn’t go away,” Yeebo writes.

The theater students at Mount Vernon High School will put on the world premiere of the play “Tales of Anansi,” written by Prentiss Matthews III. This children’s play, inspired by African ...

Soliday is a tale known in Jamaica to be more than 120 years old with the distinct influence of the European fairy tale. “Anansi” played it as a parody of the typical heroic fairy tale.

Some Anansi stories serve to explain natural phenomena, like why spiders weave webs, or to teach children how being smart can ...

Read in these terms, Sabrina Orah Mark’s “Happily: A Personal History — With Fairy Tales” is perhaps best thought of as a 26-chapter spell book for the times. It is structured as a series ...

Find out why "Anansi's Gold" by Yepoka Yeebo is on TIME's list of the must-read books of the year. ... and heads of state with a scam predicated on a tall tale. In 1972, on his deathbed, ...

Anansi’s Gold: The Man Who Swindled the World. By Yepoka Yeebo. Bloomsbury; 400 pages; $29.99 and £20. ... The stories were probably nonsense, but many Ghanaians believed them.

In the mid-1970s, a charismatic young Ghanaian named John Blay-Miezah was out and about in London,New York and Philadelphia. This urbane Penn grad, now in his early 30s, had an astonishing tale to ...

Ian Royer as an X-Men character, illustrated by David Winters. Anansi Tales pivots from Marketing to a Pop Culture blog, focusing on Marvel, Dr. Who, House of Dragons, and more. Our mission is to ...