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Peggy Appiah (1921–2006)

Auteur de Tales of an Ashanti Father

12 oeuvres 92 utilisateurs 2 critiques

Œuvres de Peggy Appiah

Tales of an Ashanti Father (1967) 53 exemplaires
Ananse the Spider (1966) 21 exemplaires
Children of Ananse (1968) 3 exemplaires
Smell of Onions (Drumbeats) (1971) 2 exemplaires
Kofi and the Crow (1991) 1 exemplaire
The Twins (1991) 1 exemplaire
Abena and the python (1991) 1 exemplaire
A dirge too soon 1 exemplaire
Why There are So Many Roads (1972) 1 exemplaire
Bu me be : Akan proverbs (2001) 1 exemplaire

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Autres noms
Cripps, Enid Margaret (birth name)
Date de naissance
1921-05-21
Date de décès
2006-02-11
Sexe
female
Nationalité
UK
Lieu de naissance
Goodfellows, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Lieu du décès
Kumasi, Ghana
Lieux de résidence
Goodfellows, Gloucestershire, England, UK (birth)
Mbrom, Ghana
Études
Maltman’s Green School, Buckinghamshire, England
Professions
children's book author
novelist
Relations
Appiah, Kwame Anthony (son)
Cripps, Richard Stafford (father)
Parmoor, Lord (grandfather - Charles Alfred Cripps)
Webb, Beatrice (great aunt)
Prix et distinctions
Order of the British Empire
Courte biographie
Enid Margaret "Peggy" Cripps was the daughter of a British chancellor of the exchequer who defied the conventions of her time with her marriage and career. She studied art in Florence and then attended secretarial school at home. Peggy Cripps met the Ghanian law student and political activist Joseph Emmanuel Appiah in England in 1951 and announced their marriage two years later. The union of an aristocratic white woman and a Black political figure caused an international sensation at the time. She became the author of several children’s books, including The Pineapple Child and Other Tales from the Ashanti, Why There are So Many Roads, and Afua and the Mouse. Peggy Appiah was also the author of two adult novels as well as a volume of poetry and a collection of thousands of Ashanti proverbs. Widowed in 1990, she spent her remaining years in Ghana.

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Each of these stories is a delightful tale featuring Ananse, the Spider. He is a trickster, sometimes doing the tricking, sometimes getting tricked. My favorite is the Tortoise and the Hare. This is not the Aesop version, but has a similar premise.

These stories are fun, well written, and the illustrations fit nicely. And while each story has a moral (eg don't be prideful, help the community, etc) the stories do not preach.

The introduction has a line that says "I hope that one day, these Ashanti Stories will be shared by children in homes and schools of many lands." and I agree.… (plus d'informations)
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TheDivineOomba | 1 autre critique | Jan 1, 2022 |
Ananse lovers are in for a treat in this delightful collection of traditional tales from the Ashanti people of Ghana, with the famed arachnid trickster appearing in the majority of the twenty-two selections contained within! Here you have some old favorites, like How Kwaku Ananse caught the Python, which opens the collection, and tells the story of how the massive snake was tricked into allowing himself to be tied up; and Kwaku Ananse and the Donkey (which always makes me feel a little sad for the donkey), in which Ananse fools his erstwhile friend and makes off with his betrothed. Some of the stories, like Kwaku Ananse and the Kingdom of the Dead, in which Ananse fakes his own death, in order to have a year of gluttonous indulgence, free from his family, were variants of tales I already knew, but with slightly different resolutions (Ananse isn't caught faking his death, in Appiah's telling). Others, like How Kwaku Ananse won a Kingdom with a Grain of Corn, were unknown to me, making my enjoyment of Appiah's work all the greater!

Of course, not every story in Tales of an Ashanti Father concerns Ananse, and some of the other selections also have a lot of appeal. Why Nephews inherit Property in Ashanti, as the name would suggest, offers an explanation of the inheritance customs of the Ashanti people; The Left-handed King explores Ashanti ideas of leadership, and what makes a good king; while The Gift of Densu is just a fun, cumulative tale that reminded me of many other such stories, like Aunt Pitty Patty's Piggy, or Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain: A Nandi Tale. Whether the tales featured Ananse or not, they entertained me, made me think, and transported me to another place and culture. The accompanying illustrations by Mora Dickson - they look like etchings - added to my enjoyment. All in all, this is a collection I would highly recommend to all folklore enthusiasts, particularly those with an interest in West African traditions, and Ananse stories.
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AbigailAdams26 | 1 autre critique | Apr 10, 2013 |

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Statistiques

Œuvres
12
Membres
92
Popularité
#202,476
Évaluation
½ 4.3
Critiques
2
ISBN
18
Langues
1

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