The story of Anansi and the Golden Slippers is a classical African trickster tale. It is the story of death and cheating death � a story that is found time and again in various cultures. 
The story of Anansi�s quest � an impossible one at that, one for which no goal is given by the King, appeals to the heart of the listening audience and the reader, because often we are often on quests where we don�t know what the goal is. Anansi wants to know what the quest is for. Unless we know what we are supposed to do, how are we going to do it? Myths and folktales are straight out of the collective consciousness, and the stuff of the unconscious with many archetypes inbuilt for study and understanding and this book is an African folktale �Anansi and the Golden Slippers�.