Brass-workers in the kingdom of Ife made brass figures of gods, humans and animals ... From the 1950s many African countries won their independence. Today, the ancient kingdom of Benin is part ...

Ananse, also spelled Anansi and Anancy, is one such folk hero of the African heritage diaspora. Half-human and half-spider, Ananse was created surrounded by wisdom, but in forgetting who he was went ...