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Book Synopsis The History of Ashanti Kings and the Whole Country Itself and Other Writings by : Prempeh I (King of Ashanti)
Download or read book The History of Ashanti Kings and the Whole Country Itself and Other Writings written by Prempeh I (King of Ashanti) and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a key text for understanding the history of the great West African kingdom of Asante (now in Ghana). It is perhaps the earliest example of history writing in English by an African ruler. The result is an indispensably detailed account of the Asante monarchy from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Context is provided by the inclusion of other writings by or about Agyeman Prempeh, together with four introductory essays by the world's leading scholars of Asante history.
Book Synopsis Asante, Kingdom of Gold by : T. C. McCaskie
Download or read book Asante, Kingdom of Gold written by T. C. McCaskie and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asante, Africa's celebrated "kingdom of gold," offers to the scholar and interested reader alike the most richly documented of all of Africa's historic societies. This history is embedded in and amplified by a vibrant oral tradition maintained by the Asante of today. The essays in this book, fifty in number, cover diverse aspects of the Asante experience from the creation of the kingdom in the later seventeenth century to the status of Asante in today's Ghana. In addition, these essays range over and discuss a variety of crucial aspects of Asante social and cultural life - kinship, witchcraft, community, selfhood, gender, death, warfare, and the rest. These essays span nearly half a century of the author's engagement with Asante and its people. The result is scholarship that is acknowledged to be at the cutting edge of the recuperation of Africa's long and still neglected past. More than that, however, this book offers much to the large international constituency of general readers who are fascinated by the story of the greatest and most enduring of African kingdoms, and to those among them who identify with Asante and its people, and draw sustenance and inspiration from their story. Glossy photo insert included.
Book Synopsis Discovering the Asante Kingdom by : Robert Z. Cohen
Download or read book Discovering the Asante Kingdom written by Robert Z. Cohen and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located in what is today the Republic of Ghana, the Asante kingdom was one of the richest and most powerful empires in precolonial Africa. The author explores the fascinating history, important cultural symbols, key leaders, and achievements of the empire, which flourished from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth century. Readers learn about the Asante kingdom’s founding myths, ruling customs, and thriving capital at Kumasi, as well as its rich artistic and musical traditions. The text and glossary support readers in learning new social science vocabulary, as prescribed by the Common Core, and back matter resources facilitate further research.
Book Synopsis Four Years in Ashantee by : Friedrich August Ramseyer
Download or read book Four Years in Ashantee written by Friedrich August Ramseyer and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Fall of the Asante Empire by : Robert B. Edgerton
Download or read book The Fall of the Asante Empire written by Robert B. Edgerton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, anthropologist Robert Edgerton tells the story of the Hundred-Year War—from 1807 to 1900, between the British Empire and the Asante Kingdom—from the Asante point of view. In 1817, the first British envoy to meet the king of the Asante of West Africa was dazzled by his reception. A group of 5,000 Asante soldiers, many wearing immense caps topped with three foot eagle feathers and gold ram's horns, engulfed him with a "zeal bordering on phrensy," shooting muskets into the air. The envoy was escorted, as no fewer than 100 bands played, to the Asante king's palace and greeted by a tremendous throng of 30,000 noblemen and soldiers, bedecked with so much gold that his party had to avert their eyes to avoid the blinding glare. Some Asante elders wore gold ornaments so massive they had to be supported by attendants. But a criminal being lead to his execution - hands tied, ears severed, knives thrust through his cheeks and shoulder blades - was also paraded before them as a warning of what would befall malefactors. This first encounter set the stage for one of the longest and fiercest wars in all the European conquest of Africa. At its height, the Asante empire, on the Gold Coast of Africa in present-day Ghana, comprised three million people and had its own highly sophisticated social, political, and military institutions. Armed with European firearms, the tenacious and disciplined Asante army inflicted heavy casualties on advancing British troops, in some cases defeating them. They won the respect and admiration of British commanders, and displayed a unique willingness to adapt their traditional military tactics to counter superior British technology. Even well after a British fort had been established in Kumase, the Asante capital, the indigenous culture stubbornly resisted Europeanization, as long as the "golden stool," the sacred repository of royal power, remained in Asante hands. It was only after an entire century of fighting that resistance ultimately ceased.
Book Synopsis Britain at War with the Asante Nation, 1823–1900 by : Stephen Manning
Download or read book Britain at War with the Asante Nation, 1823–1900 written by Stephen Manning and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2021-05-12 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative military history chronicles the significant but overlooked colonial wars between the British and the Asante of West Africa. Throughout the nineteenth century, Britain fought three major wars, and two minor ones, with the Asante people of West Africa. Like the Zulus, the Asante were a warrior nation who offered a tough adversary for the British regulars. And yet these wars are rarely studied and little understood. In this insightful and vividly detailed volume, Stephen Manning sheds much-needed light on the history of this neglected colonial conflict. In the war of 1823–6, the British endured a defeat so absolute that the British governor’s head was severed and taken to the Asante king. Fifty years later, Sir Garnet Wolseley overcame many of the challenges British expeditionary forces faced in the jungle region known as ‘The White Man’s Grave’. Finally, the 1900 campaign culminated in the epic defeat of the Asante at the British fort in Kumasi. Stephen Manning’s account, which is based on Asante as well as British sources, offers a fascinating view from both sides of one of the most remarkable and protracted struggles of the colonial era.
Book Synopsis The Asante Kingdom by : J. K. Opoku-Ampomah
Download or read book The Asante Kingdom written by J. K. Opoku-Ampomah and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ashanti Law and Constitution by : Robert Sutherland Rattray
Download or read book Ashanti Law and Constitution written by Robert Sutherland Rattray and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Travels and Life in Ashanti and Jaman by : Richard Austin Freeman
Download or read book Travels and Life in Ashanti and Jaman written by Richard Austin Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Engaging Modernity by : Kwasi Ampene
Download or read book Engaging Modernity written by Kwasi Ampene and published by Maize Books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging Modernity is the definitive history of Asante royal regalia and music ensembles. This second edition includes an ethnographical account of the 2014 Asanteman Grand Adae festival that prominently features the complex heritage of the visual and the performing arts in motion. Ampene's contextual account illuminates the historical narratives the regalia objects render as they move through space and time, as well as the metalanguage embodied in the objects and the symbolic language they convey in Akanland. The book combines text with over three hundred color photographs to construct subtle and nuanced views of the material culture associated with Asante royal court in the twenty-first century. Engaging Modernity is an essential and a vast transdisciplinary resource for the humanities and beyond.
Book Synopsis Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee by : Thomas Edward Bowdich
Download or read book Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee written by Thomas Edward Bowdich and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The People Today by : Asare Konadu Yamoah
Download or read book The People Today written by Asare Konadu Yamoah and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ashanti Region of Ghana by : S. A. Afre
Download or read book Ashanti Region of Ghana written by S. A. Afre and published by Boston : G. K. Hall. This book was released on 1975 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forests of Gold written by Ivor Wilks and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forests of Gold is a collection of essays on the peoples of Ghana with particular reference to the most powerful of all their kingdoms: Asante. Beginning with the global and local conditions under which Akan society assumed its historic form between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, these essays go on to explore various aspects of Asante culture: conceptions of wealth, of time and motion, and the relationship between the unborn, the living, and the dead. The final section is focused upon individuals and includes studies of generals, of civil administrators, and of one remarkable woman who, in 1831, successfully negotiated peace treaties with the British and the Danes on the Gold Coast. The author argues that contemporary developments can only be fully understood against the background of long-term trajectories of change in Ghana.
Book Synopsis Islam in a Zongo by : Benedikt Pontzen
Download or read book Islam in a Zongo written by Benedikt Pontzen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on empirical and archival research, this ethnography is an exploration of the diversity and complexity of 'everyday' lived religion among Muslims in Ghana's Asante region, demonstrating the interconnectedness of Islam with people's lives in a zongo community.
Book Synopsis The Asante Kingdom by : Carol Thompson
Download or read book The Asante Kingdom written by Carol Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the history and culture of the Asante Kingdom in West Africa, from its founding in the late seventeenth century to its clashes with the British and eventual decline in the nineteenth century.
Book Synopsis The Ashanti Kingdom by : Stephen Apolima
Download or read book The Ashanti Kingdom written by Stephen Apolima and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-04-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nestled within the verdant landscapes of modern-day Ghana lies a kingdom steeped in history, tradition, and legend-the Ashanti Kingdom. For centuries, the Ashanti people have woven tales of valor, resilience, and cultural splendor, shaping the destiny of a land known as the "land of gold." In "Ashanti Kingdom: The Golden Stool, Kings and Queens," we embark on a captivating journey through the annals of time, exploring the rich tapestry of Ashanti history, from its legendary origins to its enduring legacy in the modern era. Within these pages, we delve deep into the heart of the Ashanti Kingdom, uncovering the tales of its illustrious kings and queens, the symbolism of its sacred Golden Stool, and the intricate web of customs and traditions that have sustained its vibrant culture for generations. Through meticulous research, vivid storytelling, and stunning imagery, this book invites readers to immerse themselves in the sights, sounds, and spirit of the Ashanti Kingdom. From the legendary exploits of warriors and monarchs to the intricate rituals of enstoolment and succession, each chapter offers a glimpse into the timeless traditions and enduring values that define Ashanti identity. But "Ashanti Kingdom: The Golden Stool, Kings and Queens" is more than just a retelling of history-it is a celebration of resilience, pride, and cultural heritage. It is a testament to the enduring legacy of a kingdom that has weathered the storms of time, emerging stronger and more vibrant than ever before.
