One version of this story is retold in West African Folktales (collected and translated by Jack Berry) as "Adene and the Pineapple Child."
Synopsis:
An old woman counsels a childless couple to pick a talking pineapple and take it home. Three days later, the pineapple transforms into a beautiful baby girl, whom the couple adopts.The Ashanti ethnic group of Ghana also has folklore about a pineapple child, which has been retold by Peggy Appiah in The Pineapple Child and Other Tales from Ashanti.
The parents raise the child with love and care. All is well until one day the child is left at home while her parents are at the farm. Adene, an older girl who lives with the family, taunts the child about her non-human origins...
Deeply hurt, the girl decides to return to "the land of the pineapples." Her father, on realizing what is happening, pursues after his departing daughter, but just before he reaches her, she returns to her old place on the pineapple plant.
With a population of more than 33 million, Ghana is the second most populous nation in West Africa after Nigeria. Major ethnic groups in Ghana include Akan (45.7% ), Mole-Dagbon (18.5% ), Ewe (12.8%), Ga-Adangbe (7.1%), and Gurma (6.4%).
Some notable people of Ghanaian origin include Kofi Annan, 7th General Secretary of the U.N., and award-winning American novelist Yaa Gyasi, who was born in Ghana.
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