Our name
The one who freed
the stories
In Akan tradition, all the world's stories were locked away by Nyame, the sky god. Kwaku Ananse paid the price, won them, and released them to humanity.
Before Ananse, there were no stories to tell.
Akan folktales are still called anansesem — Ananse's words. He is the reason ordinary people have stories at all.
That is the job. Take what the powerful keep locked away, and give it to everyone. We are named for the storyteller, not the trick.