The Tale of How the Bean Got Its Black Eye

Once upon a beansprout, many moons ago, and long before he voyaged to America and became infamous, Anansi* was a poor spider farmer in West Africa. That’s as in ‘a spider who happened to be a farmer’, not ‘a farmer who grew spiders’, for spider cultivation would just be silly.

On each of the animals under the sky, Nyame, the great sky god, had best