When author Raoul de Jong was researching the Surinamese anti-colonial writer and resistance fighter Anton de Kom (1898-1945) in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, he says in the afterword of Anangsieh Tories, he came across De Kom’s 90-year-old daughter, Judith. the bowl. That day she leafed through her father’s notebooks containing his stories about spider Anangsieh, which De Kom used to read to his children before going to sleep. He did this in the tradition of the ‘Anansi’ stories from West Africa, taken to Suriname by enslaved people and passed on to their descendants.
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