Ananse, also spelled Anansi and Anancy, is one such folk hero of the African heritage diaspora. Half-human and half-spider, Ananse was created surrounded by wisdom, but in forgetting who he was went ...

This Christmas, a new, six-part adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s mythical fantasy about the trickster God Anansi ... with our Anansi Boy hero Charlie as you can hear in this clip. Spider is a dude.