GGG Ep8: Why the Owl is Nocturnal
Raiders keep coming into the animal kingdom to pillage and destroy, every night. At first, the king, Ɔhene Gyata, commissions the spider Kwaku Ananse ...
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Media created and produced by @Akotowaa & @Tronomie. Home of OTC: Green Green Grasses, a scripted podcast of 8 original anansesem stories featuring some of Ghana's most beloved folktale characters.
GGG Ep7: Why Rabbits Have Long Ears
The rabbit mother, Adanku, should have known better than to leave her many children in the care of a trickster spider. Kwaku Ananse, tired of how anno...
GGG Ep6: How the Hedgehog Got His Spines
Kwaku Ananse and Okonore Yaa are extremely excited to have discovered a maize farm that “nobody” seems to own. However, the farm owner, Apɛsɛ the hedg...
GGG Ep5: Kwaku Ananse and the Water God
After a long dispute between the sky god and water deities, there is drought in the land. Kwaku Ananse and his family desperately need to fetch water ...
GGG Ep4: How the Lion Lost His Clothes
Kwaku Ananse gets upset at how proud his hunter friend, Gyata the Lion is about his beauty and the fact that he will soon be king. Ananse the weaver t...
GGG Ep3: Why the Horse's Mane is Thin
Okonore Yaa’s beauty begins to wane as her hair loses its appeal. Kwaku Ananse, not wanting to lose the privilege his wife’s beauty brings, betrays hi...
GGG Ep2: How the Bull Got Curved Horns
The bull, Nantwie, is on a long journey and needs a place to spend the night. Okonore Yaa generously opens her home to him, but Kwaku Ananse isn’t hap...
GGG Ep1: Why The Spider Uses its Web to Catch Food
When a famine in the animal kingdom shows no sign of ending, Okonore Yaa sends Ananse and Ntikuma out to look for food. In the forest, they meet Anoma...