Nanzi sells bean porridge told by Ana Feliciana Maduro-Tromp, recorded on video for the Anansi Masters project on Aruba.

Subject: Nanzi sells bean porridge

Description: Nanzi pretends to go out selling bean porridge but instead he eats his merchandize by himself.

Content: Nanzi is hungry, but Shi Maria gives him nothing if he doesn't work. Nanzi suggests to sell bean porridge. Shi Maria prepares a big bowl and Nanzi leaves. But every time he gets a customer, he tells that the bean porridge is for himself. In the end he finishes the bean porridge by himself and back home he pretends to be robbed and beaten by soldiers. The next day the story repeats itself, but this time his daughter Pegasaya, who did not trust her father's story, shadows him. When she tells the true story to Shi Maria, Nanzi awaits an unpleasant surprise at home.

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