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	Ashanti.com.au - Ashanti
		However inferior an Ashanti woman may appear to an outside observer she is the final decisive factor in all the activities of the en and the arbiter of what is good or bad for the whole community.
		Today there are no wars and the Ashanti woman has shifted her energies to other things particularly retail trade in which she holds, together with her other colleagues elsewhere in the county, about 80 percent of the trade returns of the country.
		Prince Akyempe-hene does believe that the increased interaction between traditional Ashanti culture and the west has lead to a dilution of tradition, but culture is a dynamic thing he says and he feels confident that they are doing their best to preserve the core of Ashanti culture.
	www.ashanti.com.au /pb/wp_8078438f.html?0.9409799538277928 (6483 words)

	BNW : Biafra Nigeria World Message Board: the Voice of a New Generation: Hebrewisms of West Africa
		The Ashanti (even of today) practice cross-cousin marriages, characteristic of the Hebrews which are strictly similar to that of the daughters of Salphaad who wedded "the sons of their uncle by their father." See Numbers Chapt 36 vs 11.
		The Ashanti tribal worship is strangely parallel to that of divided worship that existed in Jerusalem immediately prior to the Babylonian exile.
		Among the stamps patterns of the ashanti cloths recently reproduced by Rattray, there is one striking design known as "Nyame dua" or Alter of Nyame." In the case of Mosaic Alter of Sacrifice, the horns at the corners are turned in instead of outward.
	messageboard.biafranigeriaworld.com /ultimatebb.cgi/ubb/get_topic/f/11/t/000010/p/1.html (1150 words)

	Armed Forces Secondary Technical School-Kumasi
		Ashanti is a region in the middle part of Ghana and its capital is Kumasi.
		A second thing Okomfo Anokye did was to found a king for the Asante, by displaying his magical powers commanded a golden stool to descend from heaven that is (Sikagyua kofi) On the Stool, all the nails, hair of various chiefs were cut and burned to ashes and mixed with palms wine.
		Yaa Asantewaa was an Ashanti born in 1863 and the Queen Mother of Ejisu.
	www.allghanadata.com /afsts/localhist2.htm (4159 words)

	polylog / themes / focus / Kwasi Wiredu: Democracy and Consensus in African Traditional Politics. A Plea for a ...
		The Ashanti answer is: "Yes, human beings have the ability eventually to cut through their differences to the rock bottom identity of interests." And, on this view, the means to that objective is simply rational discussion.
		Indeed, so much did the Ashantis (and the Akans in general) prize rational discussion as an avenue to consensus among adults that the capacity for elegant and persuasive discourse was made one of the most crucial qualifications for high office.
		From the Ashanti standpoint, consensus is the antidote.
	them.polylog.org /2/fwk-en.htm (4970 words)

	G. A. Henty : By Sheer Pluck : Chapter XIX. The Tide Turned
		From many of the points in the forest held by the Ashantis the sea could be seen, and on the morning of the 2d of October a steamer which had not been there on the previous evening was perceived lying off the town.
		The Ashanti force here was not a large one, the main body being nearly twenty miles away in the neighborhood of Dunquah, which was held by a small body of Houssas and natives under Captain Gordon.
		As the Ashantis were known to be in force at the villages of Akimfoo and Ampene, four miles farther, a party was taken on to this point.
	www.classicreader.com /read.php/sid./bookid.2224/sec.19 (3458 words)

	Ghana: history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Ashanti were also deprived of access to the coastal trading posts as these were in Denkyira Territory.
		By 1700, the Ashanti had control of the slave trade to the coast and the flow of European goods to the interior.
		In 1902 the Ashanti state was formally annexed to the Gold Coast Colony.
	gbgm-umc.org /country_profiles/country_history.cfm?Id=33 (2385 words)

	G. A. Henty : By Sheer Pluck : Chapter XX. The White Troops
		The Ashantis were too busy with their own operations to watch the path, and the relieving force entered the place without firing a shot.
		Not an Ashanti was met with along the path, but Frank hardly felt that he was safe until he heard the challenge of "Who goes there?" from an English sentry.
		His first step was to procure English garments, for although he had before starting laid aside his Ashanti costume, and put on that he had before worn, his clothes were now so travel worn as to be scarce wearable.
	www.classicreader.com /read.php/sid.1/bookid.2224/sec.20 (5981 words)

	Accra Daily Mail - Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Let us remember that even with an Ashanti at the helm of affairs in the last two elections, the NDC garnered some of their largest numbers in that region.
		The Ashantis are a very warm and accomodating ethnic group, perhaps more than any of all the other members of the Akan family.
		Finally, a dire warning to all is that the country as whole has not stabilized yet and the NPP just as the other political parties in Ghana is in a fragile transition.
	www.accra-mail.com /mailnews.asp?id=14347 (611 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 Empire - West Africa - Jaw-jaw
		Inland, the Ashanti kings who ruled from the Golden Stool, said to have come from the great god guardian of the Ashanti soul, Nyame, would not allow themselves to be governed by the British.
		So confident was the king of the Ashantis that he prophesized that soon he would defeat the British and that M'Carthy's jawbones would be used as drumsticks and his skull as a loving cup.
		Some of the Ashantis were attempting to cut off his head, and had already inflicted one gash on the back of his neck; luckily at this crisis an Ashanti of authority came up and recognizing Mr Williams from who he had received some kindness, withheld the hand of the savage.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/history/empire/episodes/episode_55.shtml (801 words)

	Baden-Powell, The Downfall of Prempeh, 1895
		Meanwhile, the Ashantis had already made themselves unpleasantly known as the bully tribe of that region by their raids on their more feeble neighbours, especially the Fantis of the coast.
		The Ashantis' further advance was only stayed by a deadly outbreak of smallpox in their ranks, so that for a season they withdrew.
		In the treaty of peace which thereupon resulted, the Ashantis promised to renounce all suzerain rights over various neighbouring tribes, to open their country to trade, to stop human sacrifice, to pay a war indemnity of 50,000 ounces of gold, and to keep the road from Kumassi to the Prah open and clear of bush.
	www.pinetreeweb.com /bp-prempeh-02.htm (1433 words)

	Politics of Friday, 9 July 2004
		A former Ashanti Regional Minister and Minister of State in responsible for Chieftaincy Affairs, in the NDC government, Daniel Ohene Agyekum, has declared Ashanti’s support for the NDC in this year’s election to win power in order to rescue the country from its economic woes.
		According to Agyekum, Ashantis are also fed up with the lies of the ruling New Patriotic Party and therefore ruled to vote for the NDC on 7 December.
		This anticipated change of voting trend in the Ashanti, according to Agyekum, was due mainly to the NPP’s inability to deliver as they promised the people in 2000.
	ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/election2004/artikel.php?ID=61339&comment=0 (493 words)

	By Sheer Pluck
		The Ashantis were gradually driven out of the village and wood, a great many being killed by the English fire.
		So great was the effect produced upon the Ashantis by the tremendous fire which the British had poured into every bush and thicket as they advanced, that their general thought it expedient to draw them off in the direction of his main body instead of further disputing the way.
		In such cases as this, when the Ashantis know that an enemy is going to approach through a dense and impassable forest, they cut paths through it parallel to that by which he must advance and at a few yards' distance.
	manybooks.net /pages/hentygaetext05shplk10/199.html (360 words)

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		The Ashanti would make this doll so women who were expecting could carry them.
		Ashantis believed that an expecting mother should not look at any deformity of a face or even a carving.
		True beauty to the Ashanti was long neck and round flat face with a high forehead and a small mouth.
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	A By Sheer Pluck Tale of the Ashanti War by G. A. Henty (George Alfred) eBook by BookRags
		Thus, then, the Ashantis settled down to what appeared to Frank to be an interminable business, and what rendered it more tantalizing was, that the morning and evening guns at the English forts could be plainly heard.
		Three days later the Ashanti general, with a portion of his force, moved down close to Elmina; Frank was told to accompany them.
		As soon as the line was formed the English opened fire, and the Ashantis were perfectly astonished at the incessant rattle of musketry from so small a body of men.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/8576/130.html (583 words)

	PREMPEH CLASSICS
		In most of their wars the Ashantis never killed women and children, they rather married some of them and conscripted the younger men into their army.
		The first confederation in the history of Ashanti was during the reign of Ohenekesee Osei Tutu.
		Whenever Ashantis meet, they were addressed by using the word "Amanfoo"; which is the right word to describe the "coming together of many "Aman".
	prempeh.org /points/classics8.html (550 words)

	Artist Bio: Ashanti - High Stakes Entertainment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In April, Ashanti hits the scene as the first RandB vocalist on Murder Inc. Although this is a departure for the hip hop powerhouse label that has a roster including rappers Ja Rule, Vita and Charli Baltimore, all indications show that the transition has been more than smooth and successful.
		Ashantis lead single, Foolish, has already made waves at radiogetting heavy rotation on urban stations and galvanizing fans to demand an earlier-than-planned release of her album, a tantalizing blend of edgy hip hop groves and subtle RandB styling.
		Ashantis already well established track record has placed her on the sweet road to success.
	www.highstakesent.com /artist.php?f_artist=Ashanti (715 words)

	By Sheer Pluck by G. A. Henty: Chapter XIX. The Tide Turned
		The Ashantis were soon informed by spies in Elmina and Cape Coast that the ship had brought an English general with about thirty officers.
		All their theories that the white men could not fight in the bush were roughly upset, and they found that his superiority was as great there as it had been in the open.
		Among the Ashantis, however, where the power of the chiefs is very great and where human life is held of little account, it is singular that such tactics should not have been adopted.
	www.online-literature.com /ga-henty/by-sheer-pluck/19 (3496 words)

	Ashanti.com.au - Home
		The Ashantis are one section of the people known as the Akans in Ghana.
		The vast territory they occupy in this position is most densely forested and because of the richness of forest, lands in soil, minerals (Gold), it is known to be the richest in the country.
		Generally, the Ashantis (Asantes) are very industrious, their innate desire to live independent lives categorizes them as "Most Hardworking People".
	www.ashanti.com.au (149 words)

	Untitled Document
		Because of the Ashantis (a people who lived in central Ghana) incursions in the coastal region threatened commercial interests, Great Britain fought a series of campaigns against the Ashantis (1822-1900).
		The British burned the Ashanti capital of Kumasi and forced the Ashanti to accept a humiliating treaty.
		Later, Britain declared Ashanti, Northern territories protectorate and the territory of Togoland (it was mandated to the British after World War One) which were known geographically as "The Gold Coast," a crown colony.
	www.thenagain.info /WebChron/Africa/Ghana.html (613 words)

	Conclusion
		Known as the only Ghanaian tribe to fight against and defeat the British, the Ashantis have single handedly built up colonial Kumasi (Ashanti Region capital) to the industrious region it is today; apart from a few government owned buildings, everything belongs to the Ashantis.
		Their foreign policy being to use coercive but diplomatic to become bigger and stronger, the people of Ashanti are dedicated to working hard as one people under the autocratic governance of the Asantehene to realize this goal.
		The Ashanti culture is such that they believe all their souls lie in the ‘Golden Stool’; they believe the stool binds their soul together under the leadership of the Otumfuo (king) who sits on the stool.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /~ndaaddo/Conclusion.html (690 words)

	Ashanti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ashanti Confederacy, a powerful state of ancient West Africa
		Ashanti Alston (anarchist), a former Black Panther Party member
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ashanti (110 words)

	Baden-Powell, The Downfall of Prempeh, 1895
		Soon after seven o'clock the troops began to form up on the parade-ground, but still no sign of any of the Ashantis coming; nor even was there any of the usual preliminary drumming that invariably goes on to summon all the retainers who usually form the procession.
		Due notice had been previously given, and the Ashantis had promised to pay it; but unless the amount, or a fair proportion of it, could now be produced, the king and his chiefs must be taken as guarantee for its payment.
		The two Ansahs, although they held a large hand in causing the trouble between the British and Ashantis, appear in their own country to have little or no influence with the people, and, indeed, were looked on with jealousy and suspicion.
	www.pinetreeweb.com /bp-prempeh-13.htm (1598 words)

	Mark Moxon, Travel Writer: Ghana: The Prempeh Room
		During the 17th century the influence and power of the Kumasi-based Ashanti tribe grew considerably, mainly due to their interests in the burgeoning trade in gold and slaves.
		Before long the Ashanti nation decided it wanted to cut out the middleman in its transactions with the Europeans, and through an alliance between the Ashanti, the Edina and the Dutch, Elmina was picked as the main port for Ashanti trading.
		This wasn't the end of Ashanti ambitions, and an attempt in 1807 by the Ashantis to invade Cape Coast didn't quite work out as planned, as the Fante tribe in Cape Coast formed an alliance with the British against the Edina-Ashanti-Dutch trio.
	www.moxon.net /ghana/the_prempeh_room.html (684 words)

	Ghana-Past,Present and Future
		Sectionalized and identifiable empires on the basis of those existing in Europe were nonexistence, instead there were several dominant tribes, such as, the Ashanti, which empire stretched from the main land, in Ghana to Cote de’Voire and were the most feared.
		Then in 1873, when the Ashantis (the only powerful local empire the British could not conquer) refused to give up Kumasi (the capital of the Ashanti empire) the British besieged the city and declared the Gold Coast a crown colony.
		Ashanti resistance continued until 1900, when the Ashantis attacked the British fort in Kumasi.
	www.ghananationalcouncil.org /ppfuture.htm (2763 words)

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		The Ashanti Kingdom emerged and under the leadership of Nana Osei Tutu, they fought and defeated the Adansis about the 14th Century and absorbed the Adansi Kingdom into the growing Ashanti Kingdom.
		While crossing the river with his army, he was shot by the Akyems who were lying in ambush on the other side of the river.
		The Ashantis retreated and this tragedy made it a taboo for any Ashanti King up to the time of Nana Prempeh I (circa 1900) to cross the River Pra to the south except their armies.
	www.okyeman.com /okyehist.htm (302 words)

	About Ghana
		It is the duty of the Asantehene, the Ashanti King to purify at every 42 days the stools of the dead kings.
		However, on Sunday, the king sits in state at a big durbar where the public is invited and anyone can shake hands for the first time with the king of Ashanti.
		All the chiefs and traditional people of Ashanti come to the durbar to pay allegiance to the king.
	www.silicontours.com /about_ghana.htm (483 words)

	Encyclopedia: January 22 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		1824 - Ashantis crush British forces in the Gold Coast.
		Ashanti may mean: Ashanti Confederacy, a powerful state of ancient West Africa Ashanti, a region of Ghana Ashanti people, an ethnic group HMS Ashanti, the name of two Royal Navy warships Ashanti Gold, a gold mining company, now owned by AngloGold Ashanti Gold, a chocolate-based liqueur by Peter Heering...
		Flag of Gold Coast Gold Coast was a British colony on the Gulf of Guinea in west Africa.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/January-22 (8149 words)

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		For example, the Pinkwae grove (near Katamanso), a 1.2 square kilometer forest, is the battleground of a war between the people of Katamanso and the Ashantis in 1826.
		The importance of the grove is linked with the war between the Ashantis and Denkyeras during the reign of the King Osei Tutu, the founder of the Asante empire.
		It is believed that the spiritual powers of his fetish priest, Okomfo Anokye, and herbal preparations from the Nkodurom sacred grove gave the Ashantis victory in war.
	www.worldwildlife.org /bsp/publications/africa/indigenous_vs_eng/yaaeng.htm (4625 words)

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