Efua Sutherland's The Marriage of Anansewa is set primarily in and around Ananse's home and its surroundings. The domestic setting is central to the play's action: Ananse hatches his scheme to auction his daughter Anansewa's hand in marriage to the highest-bidding chief from within his own compound. Messengers arrive and depart from this location, family discussions take place there, and the climactic feigned-death plot unfolds in the same domestic space.
The play is not set in Kumasi (a real Ghanaian city that is not the primary location of the action), a palace in the North (the chiefs who bid for Anansewa rule distant territories, but their palaces are not the setting), or Accra (the capital of Ghana, which does not serve as the play's main location). The home of Ananse anchors the entire narrative.