Anansi - New & Ancient African Tales

Featuring the full Flame Tree treatment, with new stories from open submissions alongside the classic stories and fascinating background, this gorgeous new book reveals the origins, development and relevance of the wily, clever and complex figure of the trickster god Anansi.

About the author

Emily Zobel Marshall is Professor of Postcolonial Literature at Leeds Beckett University. She is of French-Caribbean and British heritage and is expert on the trickster figure in the culture of the African Diaspora. She is author of Anansi’s Journey: A Story of Jamaican Cultural Resistance and American Trickster: Trauma Tradition and Brer Rabbit. 
Ivana Akotowaa Ofori is a Ghanaian storyteller, writer and poet. She has been nominated and shortlisted for various awards, including the Nommo Awards, and her work has appeared in anthologies such as Africa Risen and Daring Shifts, and in online magazines such as Jalada Africa and AFREADA. The Year of Return (2024) is her debut novella.

Product details

• Assisted by: Akotowaa Ofori (Introduction), Ivana Akotowaa Ofori (Introduction), Emily Zobel Marshall (Foreword)
• Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.02.2025
• EAN: 9781804179345
• ISBN: 978-1-80417-934-5
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Myths, Gods & Immortals
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Fairytales, sagas, legends; FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Africa, RELIGION / Ancient, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / African, Myth & legend told as fiction, Ancient religions & mythologies, FICTION / African American & Black / General, Ancient religions and Mythologies, Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales