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	Yaa Asantewaa
		When her brother died in about 1894, Yaa Asantewaa used her prerogative as queen mother to nominate her own grandson to succeed to the vacant office of king of Edweso.
		In the end Queen Yaa Asantewaa was captured and sent to the Seychelles islands off Africa’s east coast, while most of the captured chiefs became prisoners-of-war.
		Yaa Asantewaa remains a much-loved figure in Asante history.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ya/Yaa_Asantewaa.html (178 words)

	Yaa Asantewaa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Yaa Asantewaa the Queen Mother of Ejisu, was at the meeting.
		Yaa Asantewaa saw that some of the chiefs were afraid.
		Yaa Asantewaa's war was the last of the major war in Africa led by a women.
	www.ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/people/pop-up.php?ID=175 (304 words)

	Your True Hero - View Hero (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Yaa Asantewaa was the queen mother of the Edweso tribe of the Asante’s in modern Ghana in West Africa.
		Yaa Asantewaa is well known for her bravery and her fight against the British to gain independence for Gold Coast.
		Yaa Asantewaa was the one that moved the Asante men to realize that what the British were asking of the Asante people was too much.
	www.yourtruehero.org /content/hero/view_hero.asp?3318 (526 words)

	LONG LIVE THE QUEEN!: THE YAA ASANTEWAA CENTENARY AND THE POLITICS OF HISTORY
		As a lecturer in African history, I was of course familiar with the Ashanti queenmother, Yaa Asantewaa’s last ditch effort to preserve Asante sovereignty in the Yaa Asantewa War of 1900, and I looked forward to visiting her town and gaining a better understanding of the cultural and historical context of her resistance struggle.
		Yaa Asantewa was hailed as a great Pan Africanist, leader of a cultural war, a “symbol of hope” for the dispossessed in African and the Diaspora.
		One of the most important economic goals of re-invigorating the Yaa Asantewaa story and bringing it to the forefront of public consciousness through the centenary celebration, was to simultaneously launch a semi-annual festival to boost tourism in the Ashanti region.
	www.iiav.nl /ezines/web/JENda/Vol1(2001)Nr2/jendajournal/day.html (5197 words)

	Yaa Asantewaa: an episode, series, and broadcast date guide to the radio programme Yaa Asantewaa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Yaa Asantewaa tells the true story of a 60-year-old African woman who, one hundred years ago, waged a nine-month war of liberation against the British.
		Yaa Asantewaa is queen mother of Ejisu, part of the great Asante kingdom.
		Yaa Asantewaa takes us to the heart of a bitter struggle between a mighty superpower and a woman who refuses to contemplate defeat, even in the face of superior weaponry.
	www.radiolistings.co.uk /programmes/yaa_asantewaa.html (190 words)

	karnevaliaalborg.dk \| Yaa Asantewaa
		Yaa Asantewaa is one af the leading Caribean carnival bands in Notting Hill carnival in London, the largest carnival in Europe, where they have an annual programme in Carnival Arts.
		Yaa Asantewaa took the 5th prize in Aalborg 2001, 2002 the won the 2nd price and finally in 2003 they won the 1st price.
		That year, Yaa Asantewaa was not able to bring along many huge costumes as they had done in the previous tree years.
	www.karnevaliaalborg.dk /english/carnivalgroups/yaaasantewaa.htm (168 words)

	Yaa Asantewaa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Yaa Asantewaa was the queen mother of the Edweso tribe of the Asante (Ashanti) in what is modern Ghana.
		Yaa Asantewaa mobilized the Asante troops and for three months laid siege to the British mission at the fort of Kumasi.
		Yaa Asantewaa remained in exile until her death twenty years later.
	dbois.8media.org /yaa-asantewaa.html (343 words)

	The Lane Report -- Spotlight on the Arts--September 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		For Nana Yaa Asantewaa, storytelling is not a profession or even a calling – it is simply a part of who she is. Storytelling is a part of her genes and her heritage, learned at her mother’s knee.
		A Louisville native and graduate of the University of Louisville, Asantewaa is known regionally, nationally and internationally as a professional artist.
		She is affectionately known as “Mama Yaa,” a “keeper of the African oral tradition” that was passed on to her from her grandmother and family elders.
	www.kybiz.com /lanereport/departments/arts/arts905.html (703 words)

	www.ghana.co.uk - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The 90-minute documentary traces Yaa Asantewaa's heroism in war, her capture and subsequent exile in Seychelles.
		The audience, the statement said, highly commended the documentary and situated Yaa Asantewaa's heroism and her building of an unknown modern feminist agenda to the contemporary African situation.
		A Caribbean woman suggested that the best honour Ghana could do to Yaa Asantewaa's memory was for the Government to ratify the UN Convention on Women, which has so far been signed by only five countries, the statement said.
	www.ghana.co.uk /news/content.asp?articleID=13733 (490 words)

	Graphic Ghana - Print this page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Asanteman has re-launched the Yaa Asantewaa Festival, to give it an international outlook, and give real meaning to the celebration of the heroism of Nana Yaa Asantewaa, the queenmother of Ejisu who led the Asantes in a war against the British Army in 1900.
		The festival was first celebrated in 2000 to coincide with the centenary celebration of the Yaa Asantewaa War, and was expected to be a biennial affair but the enthusiasm could not be sustained.
		Nana Yaa Asantewaa, Queenmother of Ejisu, was known to have courageously led an army of 20,000 to resist attempts by the British Army to capture the Golden Stool of Asanteman in 1900, at a time when the Asantehene, Prempeh I, had been exiled by the British Colonial Government to the Seychelles Islands.
	www.graphicghana.com /printpage.asp?artid=10035 (454 words)

	Yaa Asantewaa - about us (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		During the late 70’s and early 80’s, the Factory was the place to see Black Theatre, hear one of London’s finest steelbands, explore the arts of Carnival through costume and music, and develop skills in photography and printmaking.
		remains a champion for Black Arts existing in the spirit of our name Yaa Asantewaa, queen mother of the Ashanti people whose spirit of resistance prevented the British governor to retire their cherished ‘golden stool’ to the British museum.
		YAA is the official home of the London Calypso Tent, where British based Calypsonians share the stage with international Calypsonians.
	www.yaaasant.demon.co.uk /ABOUT/about.htm (651 words)

	Yaa Asantewaa Arts and Community Centre
		The Yaa Asantewaa Arts and Community Centre, based in Chippenham Mews, Paddington, is London's leading and longest established fl arts centre.
		With regard to archives, Yaa has already begun the process of collating all the publicity materials used to advertise and promote its various events and activities since the 1970s.
		Yaa have set aside space for a visitor's centre and archive room to display and facilitate access to its collections on the history of African and Caribbean heritage arts.
	www.casbah.ac.uk /newsreport6.stm (453 words)

	Black Books & Stuff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1985, the Centre took the name of Queen Mother Yaa Asantewaa (1850-1921) of the Asante (Ashanti) people of Ghana, who led the heroic and ultimately successful struggle to maintain her people's national integrity and ancient cultural heritage.
		Today the Yaa Asantewaa hosts many community groups including the United West Indian Association of British Calypsonians (ABC), the Association of Portuguese in England (API) and the Djembe Drummers.
		Yaa Asantewaa believe their proven leadership in the above reflect the unique and specialised knowledge that they have built up through their community-based network of the African Diaspora.
	groups.msn.com /BlackBooksStuff/ourpartners.msnw (312 words)

	PREMPEH - YAA ASANTEWAA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Before vacation, the euphoria on campus was so high after the two heads of the above mentioned schools had a meeting to discuss the way forward for the two schools in terms of the bond that links them.
		This is the problem that has hit the boys as their number exceed that of the girls.
		All the ladies in Ghana want a piece of Prempeh boys, but our loyalty is to Yaa Asantewaa Royal Girls School.
	prempeh.org /points/aman16.html (237 words)

	NCOBRA: Yaa Asantewaa Nzingah Support website
		Yaa Nzingha, regarding her methods of teaching students of African Descent.
		Yaa Asantawa Nzingha, a teacher criticized for her methods of teaching children of African ancestry.
		Attorney Roger Wareham of the December 12 International Secretariat said, "This is about our right as a people to be self-determining and not have other people, particularly those responsible for the situation we’re in today, determine what we can be taught and who can teach it to us.
	khandi.kickinthedoorprod.com /NCOBRA/YaaAsantewaNzinghaSupport.htm (2945 words)

	ZoomInfo Web Summary: Nana Asantewaa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As things kicked off, Nana Yaa Asantewaa, founding director of the Louisville Arts Council, which co-sponsored the event, busied herself spreading crackers, cheese and meat on a platter.
		Kwanzaa celebrations are nothing new for the 63-year-old; she has been taking part in them since the holiday was created in 1966 by Maulana Karenga, a professor of fl studies at California State University, Long Beach.
		First, Chip talks to Nana Yaa Asantewaa, founder of the Louisville Arts Council, Inc., which has brought to the community the Sankofa Arts Education Discovery camps for children, grants for neighborhood arts projects and the Louisville Arts Advisory Network.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Asantewaa_Nana_384532269.htm (254 words)

	Mama Ya Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Nana Yaa Asantewa, an international storyteller, artist and workshop facilitator, is affectionately known throughout her travels as "Mama Yaa." She is a native of Kentucky where she acquired her love for stories and the arts from her family.
		The storytelling artistry of "Mama Yaa" is nationally televised via satellite on the "Telling Tales" series, produced by the Kentucky Educational Television Network.
		As a "storyteller" and presenter of the African oral tradition, she is featured in the prestigious "Gullah Festival" held in Beaufort, South Carolina.
	www.lfpl.org /western/htms/mamaya.htm (251 words)

	CASBAH: Yaa Asantewaa Video Collection
		From 1986 onwards the Management Committee of the Yaa Asantewaa Arts and Community Centre, led by the Centre’s director, has been responsible for the day-to-day administration of Yaa’s activities, the content and delivery of its annual arts event programme, educational workshops and community-based initiatives.
		Much of this activity has been recorded on video tape to illustrate aspects of Yaa’s work since its inception.
		Titles include: Jah Jah Drumming Class (date: 30/07/91); Yaa Asantewaa Calypso tent (date: 7/8/92); Jazz in the Main Space (1990 & 1992); Caribbean reminiscences; Carnival Launch: Roots (1980); Carnival Mas Camp (1990); and Malvtu at Yaa Asantewa (1991).
	www.casbah.ac.uk /cats/archive/236/YAACCA005.htm (192 words)

	Eva Yaa Asantewaa's Member Page. Radical Magick New York, NY
		Eva Yaa Asantewaa can trace her family roots in spirituality and the paranormal back to her maternal grandfather whose interests included astrology, yoga, Theosophy, magnetic healing, and mind science.
		While studying at Fordham University where she received her B.A. in Communications (1974), Eva was introduced to Jungian psychology and the "mind games" techniques created by Robert Masters and Jean Houston.
		Eva Yaa Asantewaa will teach a six-week introductory Tarot course for you and a minimum of 3 of your friends at your home or another location of your choice.
	members.tripod.com /~TarotCanada/EvaYaaAsantewaa.html (603 words)

	Reflections - Do What Scares You
		Eva Yaa Asantewaa is a Tarot-based psychic counselor, healer, community educator, poet, and arts journalist who lives in New York City.
		She publishes the monthly eNewsletter DancingWorld and may be reached via email.
		The material may not be reproduced in any way, either in part or in its entirety, without the express written permission of the author.
	www.ata-tarot.com /ata2-0/reflections/01-15-03/DoWhatScaresYou.htm (938 words)

	Diasporian News of Tuesday, 18 January 2005
		The Royal Institute of International Affairs, the prestigious London based think —thank will on January 26, 2005 host the premiere of Yaa Asantewaa, The Heroism of an African Queen, an epic TV documentary at its Chatham House, St. James’s Square.
		The event, in collaboration with The Royal African Society of London will have as special guest Ghana’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, His Excellency Isaac Osei and chair by the distinguished broadcast and journalist (former anchor of BBC Channel 4 News and now co-presenter of BBC programme The Week), Zeinab Badawi.
		“ Yaa Asantewaa is compared often to Joan of Arc but in Africa historiography, she is more then that.
	www.ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=73650 (415 words)

	Poets Against War
		Poets Against War continues the tradition of socially engaged poetry by creating venues for poetry as a voice against war, tyranny and oppression.
		New York, NY Eva Yaa Asantewaa is a freelance dance critic, poet, psychic counselor, and community educator in New York City.
		She was most recently published in An Eye for An Eye Makes the Whole World Blind: Poets on 9/11 (Regent Press).
	www.poetsagainstthewar.org /displaypoem.asp?AuthorID=6688 (81 words)

	Amazon.ca: Yaa Asantewaa and the Asante-British War of 1900-1: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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	Portrait of Queen Yaa Asantewaa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		he year 2000 will mark the centenary of Yaa Asantewaa's War, an occasion that will be the focus of national celebrations in Ghana.
		Join The Earl & Ora Sweeting Collection in saluting this extraordinary woman, whose heroic story is interwoven with that of the nation of Ghana.
		aithfully reproduced by offset lithography from the original watercolor painting by the American artist, Earl Sweeting, the Portrait of Queen Yaa Asantewaa comes to you beautifully matted (16 in.
	members.aol.com /ERSweeting/home/ArtShop.html (270 words)

	Find in a Library: Yaa Asantewaa and the Asante-British War of 1900-1
		Find in a Library: Yaa Asantewaa and the Asante-British War of 1900-1
		Yaa Asantewaa and the Asante-British War of 1900-1
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	worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/b390447b140cd7daa19afeb4da09e526.html (87 words)

	Field Notes: Dance Commentary by Eva Yaa Asantewaa
		Field Notes: Dance Commentary by Eva Yaa Asantewaa
		Eva Yaa Asantewaa has written on dance since 1974 and worked as a freelance dance journalist since 1976, published in Dance Magazine, The Village Voice, Soho News, The New York Times, and other publications.
		The use of quotes or full reprints of reviews, except by dance artists and companies, must be approved by Eva Yaa Asantewaa.
	home.mindspring.com /~magickal1/id12.html (7299 words)

	ZoomInfo Web Summary: Eva Asantewaa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Eva Yaa Asantewaa is a native New Yorker of African-Caribbean ancestry.
		She is a psychic counselor and energy bodyworker whose professional practice includes Tarot, guided imagery meditation, shamanic journeying, channeling, Therapeutic Touch and Reiki.
		Visitors to PlanetAUTHORity.com who purchase the services of its Tarot consultant, Eva Yaa Asantewaa, agree to do so according to their own free will.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Asantewaa_Eva_7438295.htm (482 words)

	Yaa Asantewaa Arts and Cultural Center
		Hugely positive and life-affirming, carnival whether in Notting Hill or around the world excludes no one and rather calls on all to participate and to share in ancient traditions, music and dance that arise like humanity itself in Africa.
		Yaa Asantewaa Carnival Group is well known for its particular attention to historical and meaningful themes, and its current trilogy begun in 2005 called "What Yaa Know" is devoted to a depiction of the African presence in London.
		1979 - 2004 Celebrating 25 years of progress at Yaa
	www.yaaasant.demon.co.uk (159 words)

	NALGBTCC News Items
		Eva Yaa Asantewaa studied Community Health Education at Hunter College School of Health Sciences.
		She maintains a private practice including Tarot-based psychic counseling, dreamwork, energy healing modalities and meditation coaching.
		Participants are asked to dress comfortably and bring a notebook and pen.
	www.lgbtcenters.org /news/news_item.asp?NewsID=13 (292 words)

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