Nanzi and Mister Grasshopper told by Tihitsa Coffie, recorded on video for the Anansi Masters project in Curacao.

Subject: Laziness is being punished.

Description: Nanzi is fed up with the laziness of Grasshopper and has him killed by his own stupidity.

Content: Right at the moment that Shi Maria cooked something nice for Nanzi, Mister Grasshopper passes by. He is invited to join dinner with them. However, after a while it appears that Grasshopper passes by very day around dinner time. Nanzi is fed up with that. When Grasshopper asks for the recipe of the delicious soup, Nanzi tells that his own back is used for that by Shi Maria. Grasshopper tries it out at home himself but dies at his attempt.

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 contains: - 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