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Asante Currency: Gold Dust, Weights and Value
Asante History 4 min read
Gold dust served as money across Asante, measured with brass weights, scales and spoons whose forms carried proverbs as......
The Battle of Katamanso, 1826
Asante History 4 min read
On the Accra plains in August 1826 a broad coalition met the Asante army in one of the largest engagements ever fought o......
The Battle of Nsamankow and the Death of Sir Charles MacCarthy
Asante History 4 min read
In January 1824 an Asante army destroyed a British force at Nsamankow and killed the governor of the Gold Coast, a defea......
Islam in the Asante Kingdom
Asante History 4 min read
Asante was never an Islamic state, yet Muslim scholars, scribes and traders held a settled place at the Kumasi court, su......
Asante and the Northern Savanna: Gonja, Dagomba and the Trade in Kola
Asante History 4 min read
Asante expansion northwards brought Gonja and Dagomba into tributary relations and linked the forest kingdom to the cara......
The Great Roads of Asante: Infrastructure of an Empire
Asante History 4 min read
Eight great roads radiated from Kumasi to the coast and the savanna, cleared, policed by road wardens and controlled by......