Ru­bidari Vic­tor’s ex­hi­bi­tion, Anan­si and The In­fi­nite Jou­vay, ran from Jan­u­ary 23-29 at the LOFTT Gallery on Ros­ali­no Street, Wood­brook. It in­clud­ed paint­ings, post­cards, prints, T-shirts, and dolls.

It al­so fea­tured the launch of the third nov­el in his best-sell­ing New Ad­ven­tures of Anan­si se­ries—Anan­si in the Land of Mon­sters and Oth­er Sto­ries.

Anan­si—the trick­ster spi­der, is a pop­u­lar Caribbean folk­lore hero and a sym­bol of our sto­ry­telling her­itage. The char­ac­ter was cre­at­ed by the Ashan­ti peo­ple of Ghana in West Africa, and the sto­ries crossed the At­lantic Ocean dur­ing the hor­rors of plan­ta­tion slav­ery.

A hand­ful of the sto­ries sur­vived the bru­tal­i­ty of the plan­ta­tion and thrived in the Caribbean where Anan­si is cel­e­brat­ed as a sym­bol of re­sis­tance and sur­vival.

Vic­tor’s Anan­si nov­els are part of a 21-book epic fea­tur­ing three gen­er­a­tions of the Anan­si fam­i­ly. The first sev­en books fea­ture the ad­ven­tures of Anan­si’s grand­moth­er as a young spi­der; the next sev­en books fea­ture Anan­si’s fa­ther; and the fi­nal sev­en books chron­i­cle the Anan­si we all know and love.

Vic­tor’s Anan­si nov­els are some of T&T’s top best sell­ers. The first book, Anan­si and the 10 Drag­ons, has sold out six print­ings.

The books are meant for ages six and up but Vic­tor stress­es that, like Har­ry Pot­ter, adults can read the book and get yet an­oth­er lev­el of thrill, so­phis­ti­ca­tion, and lay­ers of mean­ing from it,

“Fi­nal­ly, the tril­o­gy is com­plete!” Vic­tor said.

All three books—Anan­si and the 10 Drag­ons, Anan­si and the Book Of Night and Anan­si in the Land of Mon­sters & Oth­er Sto­ries will be avail­able at book­sellers na­tion­wide; or di­rect­ly from the au­thor. He de­liv­ers the books and mer­chan­dise per­son­al­ly and will sign them. The team al­so ships prod­ucts over­seas.

More in­for­ma­tion can be found at: ‘New Ad­ven­tures of Anan­si’ on Face­book, IG, and Tik­Tok or at ‘rubadiriv­ic­tor on Face­book, Twit­ter, or In­sta­gram.