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	The Rise and Fall of the Ashanti Empire
		They further demonstrate the humanity of Ashanti slavery (in relation to that slavery in the Americas) by pointing out that slaves were allowed to marry, though the children belonged to the master, rather than the mother's clan.
		The Ashanti require a girl to be a virgin at marriage and punish adultery severely.
		The Ashanti also allow a woman a divorce for impotence, adultery, laziness, witchcraft, desertion, or for taking a wife without her permission, if she is a senior wife.Among the Ashanti, polygyny is very common and legal.
	www.nathanielturner.com /ashantiempire.htm (4333 words)

	Ashanti Confederacy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ashanti wealth was based on the region's substantial gold deposits, which were mined to create intricate works of art.
		Synonymous with the Ashanti is the legend of the 'Golden Stool' (sika 'dwa), the legend actually tells of the birth of the Ashanti kingdom itself.
		The Ashanti, Adansi, Akyem, Assin, and Denkyira peoples of Ghana, like the Baule of Ivory Coast, are subgroups of the West African Akan nation said to have migrated from the vicinity of the north-western Niger River after the fall of the Ghana Empire in the 1200s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ashanti_Confederacy (1577 words)

	Second Britain Asante War 1873-1874
		Though Wolseley managed to occupy the Ashanti capital for only one day, the Ashanti were shocked to realize the inferiority of their military and communications systems.
		On March 14, 1874, the two sides signed the Treaty of Fomena, which required the Ashanti to pay an indemnity of 50,000 ounces of gold, to renounce claims to Elmina and to all payments from the British for the use of forts, and to terminate their alliances with several other states, including Denkyera and Akyem.
		Although he reorganized the army, appointed some Europeans to senior posts, and increased Ashanti resources, he was prevented from restoring Ashanti imperial power by the British political agents, who supported the northern secessionist chiefs and the opponents of central government in Kumasi.
	www.onwar.com /aced/data/alpha/asante1873.htm (727 words)

	Asante mourns a king
		The land of the Ashanti in Ghana is the home of an ancient empire, which still wields considerable influence and is widely revered beyond the borders of the modern day republic.
		The Ashanti empire was built on gold wealth which in ancient times was exchanged for salt in trans-Saharan trade.
		Ashanti intellectuals say that the social cohesion conferred by their dominant ethnic group was a stabilising factor through Ghana's difficult years.
	freespace.virgin.net /jbma.net/archive/asantemournsaking.html (303 words)

	ADDO - Bodybuilding & Fitness - Ghana
		high profile area of Ghana is the Ashanti Region, the seat of the Ashanti kingdom and an ancient African culture as famous as the Zulu of South Africa and the Maasai of Kenya.
		was mined in the Ashanti region for several centuries, it wasn't until the late 19th century that it began on a large scale.
		Another measure of Ashanti cultural wealth is the high quality of arts and crafts produced locally.
	www.ashantiwarrior.com /ghana.html (643 words)

	Pre-colonial African History
		Under the leadership of the Almoravid Yusuf ibn Tashfin, the nomadic Berbers of the Sanhage Confederation invaded Morocco in 1061, Mauritania in 1071 (destroying the Ghana Empire) and Spain in 1086.
		The Ashanti Empire continued to decline until 1901 when it was annexed by the Gold Coast Colony.
		The empire declined in the 18th century but was able to stop the advance of the Fulani Islamist jihad in 1810.
	berclo.net /page99/99en-afr-notes.html (2115 words)

	Ashanti Empire
		The Ashanti Kingdom in Ghana was founded in the seventeenth century by King Osei Tutu I. He was able to do this with the help of his Fetish Priest Okomfo Anokye.
		She was born in 1863 at Ejisu, near Kumasi, in Ashanti and later became the Queen Mother of Ejisu.
		Brave and fearless as she was, she led the men of Ashanti or the “Ashanti Warriors” to fight the British when the Asantehene (Ashanti King), Nana Prempeh I and other important chiefs were captured and sent to the Seychelles island.
	www.info-ghana.com /ashanti_empire.htm (706 words)

	World InfoZone - Ghana Facts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In the thirteenth century the Ghana Empire became part of the Mali Empire.
		The city of Kumasi was the capital of the Ashanti Empire.
		In 1874 the British took Accra from the Ashanti and made the city the capital of the colony known as the Gold Coast.
	www.worldinfozone.com /facts.php?country=Ghana (301 words)

	Ikando Volunteers
		It boasts the legacy of the great Ashanti Empire of the 11th century along with the dubious distinction of being the most traveled route for the transport of Africans to the new world.
		The Gold Coast colony was initially a fraction of the size of modern Ghana, and was extended by the British in the 1890’s during the European ‘Scramble for Africa’.
		In 1896 the British decided to expand the territory further and incorporate the Ashanti kingdom by seizing the capital of the empire, Kumasi.
	www.ikando.org /countryinfo.html (2243 words)

	History of Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Strenuous efforts were made to obtain possession of the country (modern Zimbabwe) known to them as the kingdom or empire of Monomotapa, where gold had been worked from about the 12th century, and whence the Arabs, whom the Portuguese dispossessed, were still obtaining supplies in the 16th century.
		Interaction between Asia, Europe and North Africa during this period was significant, major effects include the spread of classical culture around the shores of the Mediterranean; the continual struggle between Rome and the Berber tribes; the introduction of Christianity throughout the region, and the cultural effects of the churches in Tunisia, Egypt and Ethiopia.
		In the Second Boer War, between the British Empire and the two Boer republics of the Orange Free State and the South African Republic (Transvaal Republic), the Boers unsuccessfully resisted absorption in to the British Empire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Africa (6584 words)

	Baden-Powell, The Downfall of Prempeh, 1895
		To one just back from Ashanti not many days ago, it was particularly pleasing to hear the Secretary of State for the Colonies replying, with reference to that country, to a chorus of yaps.
		The government of the King of Ashanti had, ever since 1874, stood in the way of civilisation, of trade, and of the interests of the people themselves, and should, on these general grounds alone, be put a stop to.
		The Ashantis take time to mobilise and to get all the preliminary fetish-eating and oath-swearing completed, and thus, before they were ready, the British troops were already in Kumassi.
	pinetreeweb.com /bp-prempeh-01.htm (3580 words)

	www.ghanaweb.com: General News of Monday, 29 March 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Otumfuo Opoku Ware II, heir to the powerful pre-colonial Ashanti empire and ruler of Ghana's Ashanti people for 29 years, was laid to rest late on Thursday in the Royal Mausoleum after a day of ceremony aired live on state radio and television.
		The Ashanti are a matrilineal society and the new king will be chosen by the Queen Mother, the paramount woman in the tribe, in consultation with fellow senior Ashanti women.
		The pre-colonial Ashanti empire drew its power from gold and held sway in the 18th and 19th centuries in an area of West Africa largely occupied today by Ghana.
	www.ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/printnews.php?ID=5704 (280 words)

	VOLLENVEIDA LTD \| PROPERTIES ABROAD \| GHANA
		Much of the attraction of Ghana is based upon its legacy as the center of the gold, ivory, and slave trade during the 17th and 18th centuries, when the mighty Ashanti empire held sway here.
		Ghana's rich history centers on the once-great Ashanti empire, which rose to power during the late 17th century and continued to prosper as a center of the 18th century slave trade.
		The Ashanti capital, Kumasi, was during this period one of the finest and most advanced cities in Africa, and the Ashanti state even employed significant numbers of Europeans as advisors and administrators.
	www.vollenveida.com /ghana.htm (377 words)

	Britain Asante War Expedition 1824-1831
		In 1824, after the Ashanti executed a Fante serving in a British garrison for insulting the asantehene (king of the Ashanti), the British responded with a military expedition into the Ashanti Empire.
		Whilst the Ashanti recovered their strength back in Ashanti during the next two years (1824-6), the British were building up a powerful alliance with the Fante, Ga, Akim and Denkyera people, all of whom were now thoroughly afraid of the Ashanti.
		In 1826 a reorganized and re-equipped Ashanti force invaded the coastal regions in an attempt to bring the region under Ashanti control.
	www.onwar.com /aced/data/alpha/asante1824.htm (882 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)

	Linguistics Language Program - LING 19 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It was the language of the Ashanti empire, which dominated a large portion of Northwestern Africa in the 19th century, and is now the most widely spoken native language of Ghana, with about 7 million speakers..
		As the language of the priesthood and of liturgical texts in the Ashanti religion, still widely practised in Ghana, Twi is important to many non-native speakers as well.
		There are three standard forms of Twi, all mutually intelligible: Twi or Asante (of the region of Kumasi, center of the Ashanti empire), Fante and Akuapem (of southern Ghana).
	ling.ucsd.edu /courses/ling19/ling19langdis/twi.htm (163 words)

	council (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Some rumors told in smoke-filled pubs in the small hours of the night say she is waiting for a time when an ancient prophecy will be fulfilled, but most dismiss this as nonsense.
		Since a crucial vote to allow the Ashanti citizens of Gate to bring their slaves to serve them in the city was lost, she has placed her vote on the council in the hands of Garrad Tol, making him the Council's most influential member after Alyzar himself.
		He also enjoys the support of Rashum, an Ashanti Ivaryn, emissary of the Overlord to Gate, a man of terrible power who is working to establish a Temple to the Overlord.
	www.redshift.com /~rcampbell/council.htm (1293 words)

	Joyce Hansen - The Captive
		He is considered to be a member of the family.Those slaves captured and sold to Europeans would make the dreadful trip across the Atlantic to plantations and farms in the Caribbean and in America, never to see their homelands again.
		When Kofi's father, an Ashanti chief, is killed, Kofi is sold as a slave and ends up in Massachusetts, where his fate is in the hands of Paul Cuffe, an African American shipbuilder who works to return slaves to their homeland in Africa.
		The carefree existence of narrator Kofi, the 12-year-old son of a West African Ashanti chief, is shattered when the family's slave sells him to a slave trader in 1788.
	www.joycehansen.com /work4.htm (1004 words)

	Ghana Ethnic Groups, The Fantis
		To the south was the Atlantic coast, dotted with Dutch and British trading forts; to the north was the expanding Ashanti empire.
		After decades of hostility, the Ashanti king Osei Bonsu conquered the Fanti confederacy (1806er declined, and in 1831 the British administrator of Cape Coast, George Maclean, negotiated a treaty providing for Fanti independence and Ashanti use of trade routes to the coast.
		With the defeat of Denkyira by Ashanti, traders from Ashanti were seen coming down the coast to trade with the Europeans.
	www.ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/tribes/fanti.php (594 words)

	Oxfam's Cool Planet - On the Line - the history of Ghana
		Ghana’s rich history centres on the once-great Ashanti empire, which rose to power during the late seventeenth century.
		By this time, the Ashanti empire had conquered the majority of the other tribal states and turned its attention to controlling trade routes to the coast.
		In the 1920s and 1930s, a number of political parties arose, dedicated to achieving independence from British Colonial rule, but it wasn’t until 1951 that a general election was held.
	oxfam.org.uk /coolplanet/ontheline/explore/journey/ghana/history.htm (270 words)

	Resource Information Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Please provide information on a tradition among the Eterrah group of the Ashanti in Ghana in which any male member of a town's royal family who is born on Wednesday, September 13, is a candidate to be recruited and trained to be a bather of the town's Queen Mother.
		He also states that the queen mothers have never had bathers, but that in the ancient Ashanti empire, in a practice abolished before 1900, certain of the king's male servants would be castrated before becoming bathers of the wife of the king.
		An Associate Professor at the University of Ghana was also familiar with the eunuch bathers of the wife of the kings in the ancient Ashanti empire, yet doubts that any such practice is still extant (5 Aug. 1999).
	uscis.gov /graphics/services/asylum/ric/documentation/GHA00002.htm (373 words)

	The Columbus Times Presents Royalty of Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		No white man could have dared to speak to chief of the Ashanti in the way the Governor spoke to you chiefs this morning.
		For months the Ashantis led by Yaa Asantewa fought very bravely and kept the white men in the fort.
		The Ablest Queen of Far Antiquity 1503 to 1482 BC Hatshepsut rose to power after her father Thothmes I was stricken with paralysis.
	www.columbustimes.com /royalty_of_africa.htm (4143 words)

	WHKMLA : History of the Ashanti
		The Ashanti Confederation (also called Asante) was established in the late 17th century.
		King Prempeh I. was exiled to the Seychelles, and the Ashanti Protectorante, after an Ashanti uprising provoked by the British in 1900, the kingdom was declared dissolved, integrated into the Gold Coast Colony.
		In the 1880s, the Ashanti state, including vassall statelets, was described as 193,000 square km in size, with a population of 4.5 million (Meyers).
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/westafrica/ashanti.html (384 words)

	Ghana
		The ancient empire of Ghana (located 500 mi northwest of the contemporary state) reigned until the 13th century.
		The Akan peoples established the next major civilization, beginning in the 13th century, and then the Ashanti Empire flourished in the 18th and 19th centuries.
		Ghana, former empire, Africa - Ghana, ancient empire, W Africa, in the savanna region of what is now E Senegal, SW Mali, and S...
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0107584.html (822 words)

	Ghana
		The Ashanti empire rose to power during the late 17th century and continued to prosper as a center of the 18th century slave trade.
		During this period the Ashanti capital, Kumasi, was one of the finest and most advanced cities in Africa, and the Ashanti state even employed significant numbers of Europeans as advisors and administrators.
		Ghana, then known as the Gold Coast, was largely considered a British territory by the latter half of the 19th century, it wasn't until 1900 that the British succeeded in defeating the Ashanti and the area's other strong kingdoms.
	www.ghana.eu (245 words)

	Ashanti Books
		The books listed here may not be represent the complete Ashanti bibliography as many celebrities have bibliographies which are too long to be listed on a single page.
		We have done our best to list the most requested Ashanti books here, but if you can't find what you're looking for then feel free to explore the other book options listed here.
		The Ashanti books here are listed according to their current popularity.
	www.celebritypro.com /media/ashanti/Ashanti/books.html (517 words)

	Africa
		In West Africa the mighty Ashanti Empire had finally succumbed to the British in 1874, Samora had also buckled under the French; The Kingdoms in Congo, Angola, and the mighty empire built by Shaka had all succumbed to the superior firepower and financial muscle of the European Invaders.
		The notion of the African “nation state” or empire, where an African authority often through a superior war machine and administration had extended its rules, taxes and political control over a significant geographical area had been obliterated.
		The Ashanti Empire for example was shod off some of its holdings in Cote d’Ivoire and Togo and some northern regions that that empire had not subjugated or would have wanted to be involved in because of their Islamic faith were added together to form Ghana.
	www.logafrica.com /docs/false_start.htm (2507 words)

	patterns and symbols (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		If you ask an Ewe weaver, he will tell you that the patterns the Ashanti weave are a subset of those he has learned.
		The sophistication demanded by the courts of the Ashanti empire encouraged the development of a hierarchy of Akan and other excellent weavers, such as the Ewe, to produce cloths for the royal family and their acolytes.
		The dazzle of colour and silk influenced the desires of the rulers and wealthy indigens, such as merchants, of the surrounding groups in the shadow of the Ashanti kingdom.
	members.aol.com /johnn77026/kandk.htm (766 words)

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