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Oral Tradition as Historical Evidence
Archives & Resources 4 min read
Stool histories, drum texts and court historians are records, not folklore. How Asante oral tradition is transmitted, ho......
Reading the Sources: European Accounts of Asante and Their Biases
Archives & Resources 5 min read
Bosman, Romer, Bowdich, Dupuis and the Dutch factors wrote most of what survives in writing about early Asante. A guide......
Asante Collections in Dutch and European Museums
Archives & Resources 4 min read
Where Asante objects ended up in Europe, how those holdings were formed, and how to search the online catalogues of the......
The Manhyia Palace Museum and Archive
Archives & Resources 5 min read
The museum in the old palace at Kumasi is where the Asante kingdom keeps and tells its own history: regalia, photographs......
PRAAD: Ghana's National Archives and the Asante Record
Archives & Resources 5 min read
Ghana's Public Records and Archives Administration Department holds the colonial and post-independence record of Asante.......
The Dutch West India Company Archive at the Nationaal Archief
Archives & Resources 5 min read
A practical guide to the West India Company and Guinea Coast records in The Hague: what survives, how the series are org......