Confessions of Anansi

The Confessions of Anansi tells stories of the folk hero in an original way. Anansi stories are entwined in the lives of the Ashanti Africans from the slave trade to plantation life in Jamaica. Anansi is seen on the journey from the interior to the coast of Africa with the captured Africans. You experience his horror of the Middle Passage, the auction block, plantation life and its many intrigues.

The author expertly crafts fact with fiction and makes Anansi even more legendary by tracing his origin and migration from Africa to the Caribbean. He becomes more than a mere mischief maker, but one who helps to distract the enslaved Africans from their sorrow and misery by relating his many exploits and imparts some of his cunning to them.