Donso, a West African hunterman, learns the importance of living in harmony with nature and the necessity of placing humans among, not above, all other living things.

There is an African folktale about a race between a hare and a chameleon. The speedy hare is winning, while the much slower chameleon tries without success to overtake him. Then the chameleon has an ...

First published in 1914 in the author's Folk stories from southern Nigeria, West Africa. An African folktale tells how the sun and water once lived on earth as friends, but because the sun failed to ...

Once upon a time, in the days before the people began to make war on the animals, the animals gathered together to talk about how they could live together in peace. "We must learn how to avoid ...

Families gathered for an interactive performance of "Anansi — The Trickster Spider: A West African Folktale’ by the Grumbling Gryphons Traveling Children's Theater group from Cornwall, Conn., at ...