The empire lasted from 1701- 1901. Asante means ‘because of war .’It was a word derived from the Twi language, a subgroup of the Akan, and Asante can also be spelt as the Ashanti. They had good ...

Around 1900, an old woman takes the lead in the resistance against the troops of the British Monarch and, together with the women's brigade she founded, holds out for a year in a fight for the Golden ...

Dormaahene Osagyefo Oseadeeyo Dr Agyemang Badu II stirs controversy with comments about the Asante Golden Stool, challenging its divine origin He suggested that the stool, unveiled during Asantehene ...

Papers presented at a symposium entitled "Asante and its Neighbors: Relations with the Exterior," held at the American Museum of Natural History in Oct. 1984, in conjunction with the exhibition, ...