Nanzi's bet with Sésé told by Eta Figaroa, recorded on video for the Anansi Masters project on Aruba.

Subject: Cheating people to win an important bet.

Description: Nanzi wins the daughter of Sésé in a bet by cheating innocent people.

Content: Nanzi and Sésé make a bet: the one who comes back first with food or money can have his child marry the daughter of the other one. Nanzi meets a woman on her way to the market and he manages to trick out her sheep. Then he cheats another woman by pinching her turkey. Finally he finds a way to take a rich man's clothes and money that makes him pay the rent. Nanzi wins the bet and Pegasaya can marry one of Sésé's children.

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