Ashanti Empire

Ashanti Empire The Ashanti empire was founded in the late 1600’s from the empire Kumasi. THe empire Kumasi was attacked by the British in the late 1600’s for their wealth, mostly in gold.The british took a fair amount of their wealth throughout several years of war, but missed a large sum of gold that they used to regain power. Most if not all of the original members of the empire were gone, so the new leaders named their new empire the Ashanti, meaning powerful in the Ashanti language. Out of

paper, I am going to be investigating and writing about the Ashanti people. The Ashanti people inhabit what is today Ghana, West Africa, with their capital city being Kumasi. I am interested in this subject because I spent four weeks of this summer in Ghana. While I spent most of my time with the Fante people on the coast, we toured Manhyia Palace in Kumasi and I was instantly intrigued by the Ashanti culture. I also personally know an Ashanti that has moved to the United States, which makes me all the

Years after the Berlin Conference, between 1884-1885 European imperialist powers pushed their way into Africa to be able to colonize land. The future of Africa was determined by these European Countries, while some Africans stood and watched others took a stand in trying to protect their land. Some of the Africans gave in peacefully (Docs.1,4,3), others promised to give in non-violently (Docs. 2,6) and lastly those that wanted to resist violently (Docs. 5,7,9). The first of the Africans were those

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.” ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones As a child, and to this day, I had and have a very 4D personality, 4D meaning four-dimensional. I had many different sides of myself, as Do most people. while most people’s “other sides” as I call them, changes and revolve around people around them, their day or the situation

Volta and Ashanti Regions. This dissertation posits that ethnicity is a consistent key determinant of voting behaviour in Ghana, and this is because ethnicity is enshrined within the political arrangements of the country (Oelbaum, 2007, pp. 242-273). There are two main ethnic blocs which give rise under the essence of absolute majority electoral system, to a two dominant party system (Ayelazuno, 2011, pp. 22-48). These ethnic blocs are the Voltarians from the Volta Region, and the Ashantis from the

The Ashanti tribe is located in central Ghana in the rainforest of West Africa. They are the major ethnic group in this roughly 50 years-old young nation. The Ashanti people are known as fierce fighters whether they are women or man. The tribe have a slogan: “If I go forward I die, If I go backward I die, better go forward and die.” (Baden-Powell) When they are faced by a war, you can hear drums from the villages to signal each others. The Ashanti religion combines both spiritual and supernatural

Julian L. McEachin Jan 14, 2015 History 320 Dr. Conchita Ndege Ghana Table of Contents • Ethnic group background(Akan/Ashanti) • Arts, Crafts, and Architecture • Culture, Food, and History • Map of County, and Flag The Akan people were once a unique group that flourished in the Ivory Coast and in the Ghana regions of West Africa. The Akan’s were a religious group, mostly Christians that strived on order and balance. At a point in time the Akan’s were grouped together in a

Introduction African art has played an important role in the culture of the world. The sculpture is the most common traditional culture expression for the African art. The different sculptures are shown by their local styles and they serve for the specific functions, such as religion. From some of these old art pieces, we figure out this kind of traditional culture expression already existed in the African for such a long time. In this paper, the art piece I am going to analyze is the Female Figure

This story will reflect on my own relationship to colonialism as a native of Ghana that of family and ancestors, and how colonialism had impacted my family and ancestors in multiple ways and finally, consider how my own experiences of colonialism had influenced my learning about historical backdrop of Indigenous Peoples in Canada. Just to give a little bit background of myself; I am Kofi as I preferred to be called, Kofi an Akan name given to a male infant born on a Friday, originating in Republic

Film Analysis: Healers of Ghana Healers of Ghana were an amazing film of the people in Ghana. The scenes that caught my attention was learning the about the Techiman Bono people and their belief in witchcraft. They have rituals and religious belief of polytheism. In the film we are in Techiman Bono in Ghana that consists of seventy different ethnic groups along with over ninety different languages that are spoken. The education system is well organized as in the film the children are engaging in