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Instead, Anansi sends Turtle away to wash dirty hands, then eats the yams before Turtle returns. Turtle later invites Anansi to a dinner in return, carefully preparing food by the river. The story follows a cycle of deception and reciprocal generosity, ending with Turtle asking Anansi to join him while he prepares his own meal.","Anansi and Turtle  \nEnglish  \nAnansi and Turtle  \nWriter: Ghanaian folktale Illustration: Wiehan de Jager Reformatted for Bloom by: Kent Schroeder [www.africanstorybook.org](www.africanstorybook.org)[ ](www.africanstorybook.org)A Saide Initiative  \nEnglish  \nCopyright © 2015, African Storybook Iniative  \nYou are free to make commercial use of this work. You may adapt and add to this work. You must keep the copyright and credits for authors, illustrators, etc.  \nDisclaimer: You are free to download, copy, translate or adapt this story and use the illustrations as long as you attribute or credit theoriginal author/s and illustrator/s.  \nOne day, Anansi the spider picked some yams from his garden.  \nThey were extra beautiful delicious yams, so he baked them carefully in the fire.  \nThen he sat down to eat them up.  \nJust as Anansi was about to put the first bite in his mouth, he heard a knock on his door.“Oh, no!”thought Anansi.“Who can that be?” But he opened the door.  \nThere was Turtle, who looked very tired. Turtle said,“Anansi, please let me in. I've walked so far today, and I'm so tired and hungry.”  \nSo what could Anansi do but let him in?  \nAnansi was too selfish to share his beautiful delicious yams with anybody else. So he came up with a nasty plan.  \nJust as Turtle sat down at the table and began to reach for some yams, Anansi yelled at him,“Turtle, your hands are all dirty! You can't eat with your hands all dirty! Go wash them.”  \nTurtle's hands really were dirty. So he slowly crawled to the river, washed his hands, and then crawled back.  \nBut meanwhile Anansi had started gobbling up theyams. By the time Turtle got back, he saw that theyams were all gone.  \nTurtle looked at Anansi.“Thank you for inviting me to dinner. If you're ever near my house, please come by and let me return the favour,” said Turtle.  \nAnd Turtle began crawling slowly away to his house.  \nAs time went by, Anansi began to think more and more about how Turtle had promised to feed him a free dinner. So one day he walked over to Turtle's house.  \nAnansi got to Turtle's house just about dinnertime, as the sun was going down over the river. Turtle was lying on a rock in the sun, warming himself up, as turtles do.  \nWhen Turtle saw Anansi, he said,“Hello there, Anansi, have you come to have dinner with me?”And Anansi said,“Yes, that would be very nice, thank you.” He was getting hungrier and hungrier  \nSo Turtle dived down to the bottom of the river to set the table for dinner and get everything ready. Anansi waited on the rocks by the shore.  \nSoon Turtle swam back up and said,“Oh Anansi, it is all ready now, please join me for dinner.” And Turtle dived down again and began to eat the green leaves he had for dinner.","cbCaiaL2fgfAZRR1","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiaL2fgfAZRR1","pdf",8643995,16,"English","en",105,"# Story\n## Anansi bakes yams\n## Turtle visits and is sent away\n## Anansi is invited to dinner in return","[{\"question\":\"Why does Turtle ask to be let in to Anansi’s home?\",\"answer\":\"Turtle is tired, hungry, and has walked far, so he asks Anansi to let him in.\"},{\"question\":\"What plan does Anansi make regarding the yams?\",\"answer\":\"Anansi refuses to share and tells Turtle to go wash his hands, using the delay to eat the yams himself.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Turtle respond after Anansi takes the yams?\",\"answer\":\"Turtle thanks Anansi and leaves, promising to return the favour by inviting him to dinner later.\"}]",1784273033,25,{"code":4,"msg":29,"data":30},"ok",{"site_id":23,"language":22,"slug":31,"title":13,"keywords":32,"description":14,"schema_data":33,"social_meta":85,"head_meta":87,"extra_data":89,"updated_unix":26},"anansi-and-turtle-folktale-story","",{"@graph":34,"@context":84},[35,52,67],{"@type":36,"itemListElement":37},"BreadcrumbList",[38,42,46,49],{"item":39,"name":40,"@type":41,"position":11},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":43,"name":44,"@type":41,"position":45},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/","Document",2,{"item":47,"name":12,"@type":41,"position":48},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/story-novel/",3,{"item":50,"name":13,"@type":41,"position":51},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/anansi-and-turtle-folktale-story/88370/",4,{"url":50,"name":13,"@type":53,"author":54,"headline":13,"publisher":56,"fileFormat":59,"inLanguage":22,"description":14,"dateModified":60,"datePublished":61,"encodingFormat":59,"isAccessibleForFree":62,"interactionStatistic":63},"DigitalDocument",{"name":9,"@type":55},"Person",{"url":39,"name":57,"@type":58},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-07-22","2026-07-17",true,{"@type":64,"interactionType":65,"userInteractionCount":11},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":66},"ViewAction",{"@type":68,"mainEntity":69},"FAQPage",[70,76,80],{"name":71,"@type":72,"acceptedAnswer":73},"Why does Turtle ask to be let in to Anansi’s home?","Question",{"text":74,"@type":75},"Turtle is tired, hungry, and has walked far, so he asks Anansi to let him in.","Answer",{"name":77,"@type":72,"acceptedAnswer":78},"What plan does Anansi make regarding the yams?",{"text":79,"@type":75},"Anansi refuses to share and tells Turtle to go wash his hands, using the delay to eat the yams himself.",{"name":81,"@type":72,"acceptedAnswer":82},"How does Turtle respond after Anansi takes the yams?",{"text":83,"@type":75},"Turtle thanks Anansi and leaves, promising to return the favour by inviting him to dinner later.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":50,"og:type":86,"og:title":13,"og:site_name":57,"og:description":14},"article",{"robots":88,"canonical":50},"index,follow",{"doc_id":7,"site_id":23},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":91},[92,95,99,103,108,113,118,123,128,131,135],{"id":11,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":44,"category_name":12,"show_sort_weight":93,"slug":94},90,"story-novel",{"id":45,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":44,"category_name":96,"show_sort_weight":97,"slug":98},"Literature",80,"literature",{"id":51,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":44,"category_name":100,"show_sort_weight":101,"slug":102},"Exam",70,"exam",{"id":104,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":44,"category_name":105,"show_sort_weight":106,"slug":107},5,"Comic",60,"comic",{"id":109,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":44,"category_name":110,"show_sort_weight":111,"slug":112},6,"Technology",50,"technology",{"id":114,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":44,"category_name":115,"show_sort_weight":116,"slug":117},7,"Healthcare",40,"healthcare",{"id":119,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":44,"category_name":120,"show_sort_weight":121,"slug":122},8,"Research & Report",30,"research-report",{"id":124,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":44,"category_name":125,"show_sort_weight":126,"slug":127},9,"Religion & Spirituality",20,"religion-spirituality",{"id":126,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":44,"category_name":129,"show_sort_weight":126,"slug":130},"World Cup","world-cup",{"id":132,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":44,"category_name":133,"show_sort_weight":132,"slug":134},10,"Lifestyle","lifestyle",{"id":136,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":44,"category_name":137,"show_sort_weight":104,"slug":138},19,"General","general"]