QUEEN MOTHER YAA ASANTEWAA OF EJISU
Yaa Nana Asantewaa was born in 1840 as Asona royalty in Besease, then Ashanti Empire in present-day Ghana . She was also of the Edweso stool line. Yaa Asantewaa was an influential Ashanti queen at the beginning of the twentieth century who remains a powerful symbol today. She died in exile on the Seychelles on 17th October 1921. Before the 20th century, the Asante political structure was critically explicated by the occupancy of royal stools (an equivalent of thrones). In…
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