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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]
In 1701, the Ashanti army conquered Denkyira, giving the Ashanti access to the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean coastal trade with Europeans, notably the Dutch. [9] The economy of the Asante Empire was mainly based on the trade of gold and agricultural exports [12] as well as slave trading, craft work and trade with markets further north. [5]
He uttered "esa nti"—meaning "because of war"—as it was because of war with the Denkyiras that the Akan city-states that would form the Asante Union joined. The Amantoo was the region of Akan-speaking peoples, with almost all of the chiefs of the Amantoo belonging to the same clan, which gave them the idea of a union of peoples was already ...
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]
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.
Osei Yaw Akoto (c. 1800 – 21 February 1834), was the seventh King of the Ashanti Empire reigning from 1824 until his death on 21 February 1834. [ 1 ] Biography
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Osei Bonsu (born 1779 [11] – 21 January 1824) [12] [13] also known as Osei Tutu Kwame [8] was the Asantehene (King of the Ashanti). [14] He reigned either from 1800 to 1824 or from 1804 to 1824.