African Folktales at Internet Archive: West African Folktales

I'm going to start off this week's recommendations with a book that you can get from Internet Archive along with a free LibriVox audiobook too:  West African Folktales by William H. Barker and Cecilia Sinclair (who also did the illustrations). Here's a link to the Internet Archive book, and also the LibriVox audiobook.

These stories were collected in the early years of the 20th century from African students at a teacher training center in Accra, the capital of Ghana. 

(children listening to stories)

Many of the stories focus on Anansi, "Spider," a sly, greedy, dangerous trickster. You will also meet Kweku Tsin, Anansi's good-hearted son who often outwits his father. In the stories, Anansi is sometimes like a spider, and sometimes like a man, and sometimes it is just hard to tell. In the illustrations, Anansi appears as a human; in this illustration, Anansi has all the wisdom of the world in a pot, and he's trying to hide the pot up in a tree.

Here's the audiobook:

So, you can read, listen, or read while you listen!