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13 Mar, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Hello Abusuafoɔ!
As we are all aware that March is Ghana 🇬🇭 Month. A month of celebration of our country for the attainment of statehood.

This month of March in 2021 is also Asante History Month. All you need to know about Asante and Asanteman: Image
origins, diplomatic relations of the various Asantehene, entrepreneurship and commerce of old, now and the future, music, folklore, poetry, entertainment etc....

Starting from tomorrow, we are dedicating this month to talk about Three Great Asante Women....
whose achievements have earned them a place in the history of the world. Nana Yaa Asantewaa, Queen Nanny and Queen Abla Pokou.

Nana Yaa Asantewaa, the woman who led the men of Asante to fight and defended the Golden Stool of the Asantes in a war named as “Yaa Asantewaa war”
Queen Nanny (Nana) of the Jamaican Maroons, who led her people to fight and defeated the British in a war that the British had no option than to sign a peace treaty with the Maroon people of Jamaica 🇯🇲.
Queen Abla Pokou, a daughter of Kumasi and Nsuta. Who led her group westward to cross Komoé River by sacrificing her only son for her people to cross the river in a long, arduous journey.

Anticipate! Piawwwwwww!!!!!

#AsanteHistoryMonth #AsanteHistory

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NANA YAA ASANTEWAA (1840-1921), THE WOMAN WHO FOUGHT MEN IN FRONT OF CANNONS. AFRICA’S GREATEST QUEEN OF ALL TIME. (Onyankonsroma aseni).

A paraphrase conversation when the British Governor, Sir Frederic Hodgson visited Kumasi.

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Governor: If you Asantes, gave the Golden Stool to Nana Prempeh to sit on, why don’t you bring it to me to sit on? Though the government has not received the Golden Stool, I will rule the nation with all power and strictness at my disposal.
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Nana Yaa Asantewaa: Did you see Nana Prempeh when you were coming to Kumasi?

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21 Feb
Today is Akwasidae, enti mema mo nyinaa Adae Tokyi oo? Adae nto yie!!!

As today is Akwasidae, let us use this opportunity to educate ourselves about who Asantes really are?

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The youth of today and the younger generation coming up have been made to believe that when we talk about Asantes, they are one of the tribes of the Akan Ethnic Group, they are the only people occupying the Ashanti Region and Ahafo Region,
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HOW MANY TIMES DOES AN ASANTEHENE WEAR THE BULLETPROOF WAR JACKET (Batakarikeseɛ) IN HIS LIFETIME?

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Hundred and forty seven (147) years ago today, the then hundred and seventy six year old capital city of Osei Tutu, Kumasi, was burned down completely by the invading imperial forces of the British led by General Sir Garnet Wolseley - Sagranti War! Awerehosem.....
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The “self acclaimed” Nkoransa Chief tried to use ‘thugs’ dressed in Police uniforms to takeover the Nkoransa Palace. The resistance of The Nkoransa People have won many admirations and respect from Asanteman.

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As far as Otumfuo Santehene and Asanteman are concern there is No Nkoransahene at the moment. Take not!!

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ABAKƆSƐM BRƐ: ASANTE NATION UNDER OTUMFOƆ MENSA BONSU (1874 - 1883).

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