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Ashanti wars
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Ashanti wars ( Asante wars ). The Ashanti empire, located in the hinterland of the Gold Coast of west Africa, reached its peak in the late 18th cent. An attempt by the Ashanti to establish their dominion over the territory adjacent to British...
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Ashanti
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Ashanti or Asante , historic and modern administrative...Ghana's cocoa. It is inhabited by the Ashanti, a matrilineal Akan people who constitute...been welded by the Oyoko clan into the Ashanti confederation, with the capital at Kumasi...
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Okomfo Anokye
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Anokye (active late 17th century) was an Ashanti fetish priest, statesman, and lawgiver. A cofounder of the Ashanti Kingdom in West Africa, he helped establish...Akwapim in the Akwamu Kingdom southeast of Ashanti, but his descendants claim he was born...
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Ghana
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...the principal of which are the Akan (Ashanti and Fanti), Mole-Dagbani, Ewe, and...including Gonja and Dagomba in the north, Ashanti in the interior, and the Fanti states...face of expansionist activities by the Ashanti kingdom; the British, however, remained...
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Kofi Abrefa Busia
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...royal house of Wenchi, a subgroup of the Ashanti, Ghana's largest tribe. Educated at...the Gold Coast to begin research on the Ashanti political system. In 1942 he became one...the chiefs still had powers. Those in Ashanti could choose six additional members of...
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Kumasi
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...1984 pop. 376,246), capital of the Ashanti Region, central Ghana. The second largest...was founded c.1700 as the capital of the Ashanti confederacy. Although the British destroyed the Ashanti palace in 1874, the city remains the seat...
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Fanti
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...primarily as a means of protection against Ashanti incursions from the interior. Several Fanti-Ashanti wars followed. The Fanti were aided by...joint Fanti-British army defeated the Ashanti, and in the same year the Fanti became...
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George Maclean
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...African states. He therefore entered into negotiations with the Ashanti government and in 1831 concluded a treaty with them which provided...entered into negotiations with the states which lay between Ashanti and the coast. In time, Maclean became widely respected in...
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Robert Baden-Powell
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...1895 Baden-Powell was sent to command a campaign against the Ashanti, whose king had broken British treaties. He thought he would...his own command in Africa. Based on his experiences with the Ashanti, Baden-Powell published a book called The Downfall of Prempeh...
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GHANA
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...WEST AFRICAN PIDGIN ENGLISH, and indigenous languages such as Ashanti, Ewe, Fanti, and Ga. The region was under British influence...comprises the former British colonies of the Gold Coast and Ashanti , the protectorate of the Northern Territories , and the United...
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