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Author : J. K. Opoku-Ampomah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Ashanti (African people)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017588638
Author : Robert Z. Cohen
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781477718803
Located in what is today the Republic of Ghana, the Asante kingdom was one of the richest and most powerful empires in precolonial Africa. The author explores the fascinating history, important cultural symbols, key leaders, and achievements of the empire, which flourished from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth century. Readers learn about the Asante kingdom’s founding myths, ruling customs, and thriving capital at Kumasi, as well as its rich artistic and musical traditions. The text and glossary support readers in learning new social science vocabulary, as prescribed by the Common Core, and back matter resources facilitate further research.
Author : Robert B. Edgerton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1451603738
For the first time, anthropologist Robert Edgerton tells the story of the Hundred-Year War—from 1807 to 1900, between the British Empire and the Asante Kingdom—from the Asante point of view. In 1817, the first British envoy to meet the king of the Asante of West Africa was dazzled by his reception. A group of 5,000 Asante soldiers, many wearing immense caps topped with three foot eagle feathers and gold ram's horns, engulfed him with a "zeal bordering on phrensy," shooting muskets into the air. The envoy was escorted, as no fewer than 100 bands played, to the Asante king's palace and greeted by a tremendous throng of 30,000 noblemen and soldiers, bedecked with so much gold that his party had to avert their eyes to avoid the blinding glare. Some Asante elders wore gold ornaments so massive they had to be supported by attendants. But a criminal being lead to his execution - hands tied, ears severed, knives thrust through his cheeks and shoulder blades - was also paraded before them as a warning of what would befall malefactors. This first encounter set the stage for one of the longest and fiercest wars in all the European conquest of Africa. At its height, the Asante empire, on the Gold Coast of Africa in present-day Ghana, comprised three million people and had its own highly sophisticated social, political, and military institutions. Armed with European firearms, the tenacious and disciplined Asante army inflicted heavy casualties on advancing British troops, in some cases defeating them. They won the respect and admiration of British commanders, and displayed a unique willingness to adapt their traditional military tactics to counter superior British technology. Even well after a British fort had been established in Kumase, the Asante capital, the indigenous culture stubbornly resisted Europeanization, as long as the "golden stool," the sacred repository of royal power, remained in Asante hands. It was only after an entire century of fighting that resistance ultimately ceased.
Author : Edmund Abaka,Kwame Osei Kwarteng
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351184052
The Asante World provides fresh perspectives on the Asante, the largest Akan group in Southern Ghana, and what new scholars are thinking and writing about the "world the Asante made." By employing a thematic approach, the volume interrogates several dimensions of Asante history including state formation, Asante-Ahafo and Bassari-Dagomba relations in the context of Asante northward expansion, and the expansion to the south. It examines the role of Islam which, although extremely intense for just a short time, had important ramifications. Together the essays excavate key aspects of Asante political economy and culture, exemplified in kola nut production, the kente/adinkra cloth types and their associated symbols, proverbs, and drum language. The Asante World explores the Asante origins of Jamaican maroons, Asante secular government, contemporary politics of progress, governance through the institution of Ahemaa or Queenmothers, epidemiology and disease, and education in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Featuring innovative and insightful contributions from leading historians of the Asante world, this volume is essential reading for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars concerned with African Studies, African diaspora history, the history of Ghana and the Gold Coast, the history of Islam in Africa, and Asante history.
Author : Prempeh I (King of Ashanti),A. Adu Boahen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0197262619
This is a key text for understanding the history of the great West African kingdom of Asante (now in Ghana). It is perhaps the earliest example of history writing in English by an African ruler. The result is an indispensably detailed account of the Asante monarchy from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Context is provided by the inclusion of other writings by or about Agyeman Prempeh, together with four introductory essays by the world's leading scholars of Asante history.
Author : T. C. McCaskie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Ashanti (African people)
ISBN : 1611635926
Asante, Africa's celebrated "kingdom of gold," offers to the scholar and interested reader alike the most richly documented of all of Africa's historic societies. This history is embedded in and amplified by a vibrant oral tradition maintained by the Asante of today. The essays in this book, fifty in number, cover diverse aspects of the Asante experience from the creation of the kingdom in the later seventeenth century to the status of Asante in today's Ghana. In addition, these essays range over and discuss a variety of crucial aspects of Asante social and cultural life - kinship, witchcraft, community, selfhood, gender, death, warfare, and the rest. These essays span nearly half a century of the author's engagement with Asante and its people. The result is scholarship that is acknowledged to be at the cutting edge of the recuperation of Africa's long and still neglected past. More than that, however, this book offers much to the large international constituency of general readers who are fascinated by the story of the greatest and most enduring of African kingdoms, and to those among them who identify with Asante and its people, and draw sustenance and inspiration from their story. Glossy photo insert included.
Author : Carol Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0531202879
Surveys the history and culture of the Asante Kingdom in West Africa, from its founding in the late seventeenth century to its clashes with the British and eventual decline in the nineteenth century.
Author : Kwame Dwoben Poku Afriyie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Ashanti (Kingdom)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132097259
Author : Philip Koslow
Publisher : Chelsea House
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 079103139X
Provides information on the history and people of the Kingdom of Asante.
Author : Ivor Wilks
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1989-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0521379946
Originally published in 1975, and reprinted with additional introductory material in 1989, this book provides an in-depth account of Asante history during the nineteenth century. The focus of the book is on the broad political development of Asante society, concentrating on the material factors which affected the decision making process during various administrations. This focus reflects the complex and sophisticated nature of the Asante social system, a system which had its basis in administrative unity and a core idea of nationhood. The text utilizes the abundant archival, printed and oral source materials available regarding the Asante, offering the reader a profound insight into the nature and structure of a remarkable society. This is a fascinating book that will be of value to anyone with an interest in African history.
Author : T. C. McCaskie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0521894328
A detailed and richly nuanced historical portrait of pre-colonial Asante.
Author : Faustine Ama Boateng, Ph.D.
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1995-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0823919757
Presents a survey of the culture, history, and contemporary life of the Asante people of Ghana.
Author : Stephen Manning
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526786036
This authoritative military history chronicles the significant but overlooked colonial wars between the British and the Asante of West Africa. Throughout the nineteenth century, Britain fought three major wars, and two minor ones, with the Asante people of West Africa. Like the Zulus, the Asante were a warrior nation who offered a tough adversary for the British regulars. And yet these wars are rarely studied and little understood. In this insightful and vividly detailed volume, Stephen Manning sheds much-needed light on the history of this neglected colonial conflict. In the war of 1823–6, the British endured a defeat so absolute that the British governor’s head was severed and taken to the Asante king. Fifty years later, Sir Garnet Wolseley overcame many of the challenges British expeditionary forces faced in the jungle region known as ‘The White Man’s Grave’. Finally, the 1900 campaign culminated in the epic defeat of the Asante at the British fort in Kumasi. Stephen Manning’s account, which is based on Asante as well as British sources, offers a fascinating view from both sides of one of the most remarkable and protracted struggles of the colonial era.
Author : Kwami Segbawu
Publisher : Sedco Publishing
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000045090465
Author : Larry W. Yarak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015018841265
This is a careful study of the administration and government of the West African kingdom of Asante between 1744 and 1873. Yarak analyzes the nature and development of the pre-colonial state, and traces the history and character of the Asante-Dutch relationship. Drawing on extensive research in previously neglected Dutch archives, as well as on important Asante oral sources, this book broadens our knowledge of the complexities of Afro-European relations on the pre-colonial Gold Coast, and contributes to wider historiographical debates over our understanding of African institutions.