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Meet clever tricksters, talking animals and timeless lessons carried through generations of Ghanaian storytelling.
Featured taleBefore the world was as we know it, the tortoise was a vulnerable creature without armour, until an act of great loyalty to Nyame the Creator earned it a gift no other animal received.
Creation MythsLong ago, the sky rested just above the rooftops, and Nyame the Great Sky God lived close enough to touch, until the carelessness of people drove him far above, where he remains to this day.