How Nanzi picked beans told by Mildred Offerman, recorded on video for the Anansi Masters project in Curacao.

Subject: Looking for food.

Description: Nanzi thinks he can trick the King and make use of a rule that is not applicable to him.

Content: The King opens his garden to poor mothers with young children so that they can pick beans to feed their children and themselves. Because Nanzi is simply Nanzi, he finds a way to make use of the situation. He dresses up as a baby and pretends to be Shi Maria's infant. But the King notices that something strange is going on. He thinks of something that reveals Nanzi. Fortunately the King can laugh about it so all well ends well.

About Anansi Masters: The Anansi Masters project is developed by Vista Far Reaching Visuals (Mr. Jean Hellwig) and partners. It is designed as a public digital platform at http://www.anansimasters.net and opened in 2007. At the website one can find information about the story character of Nanzi (or Anansi or Kweku Ananse), with English and Dutch subtitled video recordings of storytelling in several countries in different languages, educational modules about storytelling for use at schools and academies, and digital issues of the Anansi Masters Journal published since the beginning of the project. All storytelling videos are also published on Youtube. The stories of the Anansi tradition originate in Africa and were exported to other parts of the world through slave trade and migration. In Anansi Masters, the similarities and differences between the stories and storytellers, who tell in their own language, can be found. Anansi Masters initiates different activities all over the world where stories from this oral tradition can be found. The founder has the ambition to film as many stories from this tradition as possible in as many countries as possible. Anansi Masters collaborates with writers, theatre makers, filmmakers, researchers, schools and of course with many many storytellers.

This dataset refers to: - the video recording of the storytelling with English subtitles - the video recording of the storytelling with Dutch subtitles - the video recording of the short interview with the storyteller with English subtitles - the video recording of the short interview with the storyteller with Dutch subtitles - a text datasheet with information about the stortyteller and story in English and Dutch