The Ghana Story library
Start with the story behind the place.
A growing, source-backed encyclopedia of Ghana told through people, culture, history and the places visitors can still experience today.
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31 stories
- Asante powerThe stool that was never meant to be sat on1 min listen
- ResistanceA governor asked for a seat, and a war followed1 min listen
- Living heritageKente is a language before it is fashion1 min listen
- Origins & WorldviewsNyame and Asase Yaa: the Sky Father and the Earth Mother1 min listen
- Origins & WorldviewsThe Old Woman and the Pestle: why the sky moved away2 min listen
- Origins & WorldviewsHow Death Came: the goat, the sheep, and the message that arrived wrong1 min listen
- Origins & WorldviewsTano and Bia: the brothers and the stolen blessing1 min listen
- Origins & WorldviewsHow the Lesser Gods Came Down1 min listen
- Origins & WorldviewsWhy the Crab Has No Head1 min listen
- Origins & WorldviewsWhy the Lizard Nods1 min listen
- Origins & WorldviewsWhy the Bat Flies at Night1 min listen
- Origins & WorldviewsWhy the Sea Turtle Beats Its Breast1 min listen
- Origins & WorldviewsHow the Leopard Got Its Spots — and How the Antelope Kept Its Life1 min listen
- Origins & WorldviewsWhere the Wild Things Were Kept: how sickness and hardship got loose1 min listen
- Night StoriesHow Ananse Bought the Sky God's Stories2 min listen
- Night StoriesWhy Wisdom Is Scattered Through the World1 min listen
- Night StoriesAnanse and the Pot of Beans, or Why the Spider Is Bald1 min listen
- Night StoriesAnanse and the Talking Skull1 min listen
- Night StoriesAnanse and the Famine: how he came by his wife's grain1 min listen
- Night StoriesAnanse and the Grasshopper's Debt1 min listen
- Kingdoms, Rulers & ResistanceWhat a Stool Is1 min listen
- Kingdoms, Rulers & ResistanceThe Queen Mother1 min listen
- Work, Trade & OwnershipBegho and the Gold Road1 min listen
- Work, Trade & OwnershipThe Weights: gold, proverbs, and the smallest sculptures in the world1 min listen
- Night StoriesSasabonsam1 min listen
- Night StoriesMmoatia1 min listen
- Night StoriesObayifo1 min listen
- Night StoriesAsamando: the country of the ancestors2 min listen
- Diaspora & ReturnKwaku Ananse in the Americas1 min listen
- Origins & WorldviewsWhat Was in the Bag: how sickness, poverty and the wild animals got out2 min listen
- Places & LandscapesThe Forest That Was Left Standing1 min listen