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Yaa Asantewaa and the Asante-british War of 1900-1 - Softcover

 
9789988550998: Yaa Asantewaa and the Asante-british War of 1900-1
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The Asante-British War of 1900-01 is known outside Ghana as the war of the 'Golden Stool'. In Ghana it is known as the Yaa Asantewaa War, after the Queen of Edweso who was its principal inspiration. But while her leadership has been acknowledged in the scThe eminent Ghanaian historian, A. Adu Boahen, remedies this oversight in this account written for the centenary of the war. With their king and many leading chiefs already in exile, the Asante faced a new crisis in 1900 with the British Governor's demandA. ADU BOAHEN was Professor Emeritus of History, University of Ghana (Legon), fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts & Sciences

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...presents her as a feisty, small-built woman, aged about sixty in 1900, who was one of the main instigators of the war ...and the principal war leader. ARAS Australia
Boahen has done well to extol the virtues of this extraordinary woman, showing beyond doubt that she came to exercise a quite decisive influence on the course of the war even if the extent to which she herself actually engaged in combat remains moot. - IvThere has long been a need for the definitive story of Yaa Asantewaa, the famed Queen Mother of Kumasi, who was the inspirational leader behind the great Asante war of resistance of 1900-01 against British domination. This need has now been met in a fine
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A. Adu Boahen is Professor Emeritus of History, University of Ghana (Legon), fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts & Sciences.

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