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The Great Oath of Asante: Ntamkese and Political Authority
Asante History 4 min read
Swearing the Great Oath moved a dispute out of local hands and into the Asantehene's court. It was a legal instrument of......
Asantemanso and the Origins of the Asante People
Asante History 4 min read
Tradition holds that the ancestors of the Asante clans emerged from the ground at Asantemanso. Archaeology shows settlem......
The Battle of Feyiase and the Defeat of Denkyira
Asante History 4 min read
In 1701 the young Asante union destroyed the power that had ruled it. Feyiase ended Denkyira overlordship, opened the ro......
Ghanaian Communities in the Netherlands Today
Netherlands-Ghana Relations 4 min read
From the 1980s onwards Ghanaians settled in Amsterdam Zuidoost and Rotterdam, building churches, associations and busine......
Euro-African Families of Elmina
Netherlands-Ghana Relations 4 min read
The Vroom, Bartels, Nieser and Ulzen families and others born of Dutch-Akan unions became the brokers, interpreters and......
The Dutch–Asante Treaty of 1837 and the Recruitment Agreement
Netherlands-Ghana Relations 4 min read
Major-General Jan Verveer travelled to Kumasi to negotiate soldiers for the Dutch East Indies. The agreement he reached......