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Captioned color photographs and brief text describe the flags of the Asafo, the warrior group of the Fante people of Ghana.

Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah was born in Ghana with a deformed right leg, but overcame his disability and became a hero after riding a bicycle across the nation.

A collection of stories gathered from the folklore of the Ashanti and Hausa peoples of western Africa.

All the animals, except the lazy Monkey, work to make a drum for the King of the Jungle, but Anansi makes certain that Monkey ends up with the hardest job of all.

A contemporary male weaver from Ghana explains how his people maintain the tradition of weaving, including an explanation of the strip weaving of Kente cloth and its importance in their Ewe culture.

Storyteller Bobby Norfolk presents modern adaptations of traditional Ghanian tales of Anansi, the trickster spider.

This book tells of the life of professional wrestler Kofi Kingston, who was a fan of the sport growing up in Boston.

A collection of nine folktales involving trickery, including "The Jester Who Fooled a King" from Poland, "Pedro Animala and the Carrao Bird" from Puerto Rico, and "The Tortoise and the Hare" from Ghana.

A collection of folktales from Ghana, centering around the figure of Kwaku Ananse, the spider man.