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Twi is spoken by over nine million Asante people as their native language. [1] [2] [3] The Asante people developed the Ashanti Empire, along the Lake Volta and Gulf of Guinea. [4] The empire was founded in 1670, and the capital Kumase was founded in 1680 by Asantehene Osei Kofi Tutu I on the advice of Okomfo Anokye, his premier. [4]
The word derives from the Twi words ɔsa meaning "war" and nti meaning "because of". This name comes from the Asante's origin as a kingdom created to fight the Denkyira kingdom. [15] The variant name "Ashanti" comes from British reports transcribing "Asante" as the British heard it pronounced, as-hanti.
The Asantehene is the title for the monarch of the historical Ashanti Empire as well as the ceremonial ruler of the Ashanti people today. The Ashanti royal house traces its line to the Oyoko (an Abusua, or "clan") Abohyen Dynasty of Nana Twum and the Oyoko Dynasty of Osei Tutu Opemsoo, who formed the Empire of Ashanti in 1701 and was crowned Asantehene (King of all Asante). [1]
It is said that the first town that changed allegiance from Ntim Gyakari to Osei Tutu was the Abooso people. Abooso was a town that lay in the vicinity of Adanse Akrokeri and Abankeseso. The inhabitants of this town were called Bontwumafo - the red clay people. The Denkyirahene made ten classes of men and women.
The Golden Stool on its throne, the hwedom dwa (1935) Flag of the Asante people depicting the Golden Stool in the middle.. The Golden Stool (Ashanti-Twi: Sika dwa; full title, Sika Dwa Kofi "the Golden Stool born on a Friday") is the royal and divine throne of kings of the Asante people and the ultimate symbol of power in Asante. [1]
The Oware is an abstract strategy game widely believed to be of Asante origin. [18] People sat under the shade provided by huge trees along the street where they played the board game. [8] Chess was also played, where the King would have the move of a bishop, or a move similar to the bishops diagonal move.
The Okomfo Anokye sword site, which is legendary site of the foundation of the Ashanti Empire in Kumasi in 1701. When Osei Kofi Tutu I succeeded to the throne of the Kumaseman State between c.1680 and c.1695 (exact year unknown; although he was definitely Kumasehene by 1695) to the leadership of the small group of Akan forest states around the city of Kumasi, which were already grouped in a ...
Ashanti may refer to: . Ashanti people, an ethnic group in West Africa . Ashanti Empire, a pre-colonial West African state in what is now southern Ghana; Ashanti dialect or Asante, a literary dialect of the Akan language of southern Ghana