Yaa Asantewaa

Yaa Asantewaa
human
Ein sex anaa genderfemale Edit
Country wey e be citizenGold Coast Colony Edit
AllegianceAshanti Empire, Ghana Edit
Name wey dem give amYaa Edit
Family nameAsantewaa Edit
Noble titlequeen mother Edit
Ein date of birth1832, 1840 Edit
Place dem born amBesease Edit
Date wey edie17 October 1921 Edit
Place wey edieSeychelles Edit
Languages edey speak, rep anaa signTwi Edit
Ein occupationruler, military leader, resistance fighter Edit
Position eholdqueen mother, queen mother in Africa Edit
ConflictYaa Asantewaa War, Anglo-Ashanti wars Edit

Yaa Asantewaa I (dem born am 17 October 1840 – she die 17 October 1921). Na she be Queen Mother for Ejisu wey dey de Ashanti Empire – dat be part of de Ghana wey dey today.

Ebi ein bro Nana Akwasi Afrane Opese (na he be the king of Edwesu), wey appoint am. Ebe ein wey she lead de Ashanti war wey dem dey call am War of the Golden Stool, alias Yaa Asantewaa War of Independence against de British Empire, for 1900 insyd.[1]

  1. Appiah, Kwame Anthony, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (eds), Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, 1999, p. 276.

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