If it were in the brave days of Osei Tutu, Okomfo Anokye, and Opoku Ware, leaders would not sit down to see their King taken away without firing a shot. "Now I have seen that some of you fear to go forward to fight for our King. Yaa Asantewaa, who was present at this meeting, stood and addressed the members of the council with these now-famous words: ![]() This request led to a secret meeting of the remaining members of the Asante government at Kumasi, to discuss how to secure the return of their king. When the British exiled him in the Seychelles in 1896, along with the King of Asante Prempeh I and other members of the Asante government, Nana Yaa Asantewaa became regent of the Ejisu-Juaben District.Īfter the deportation of Prempeh I, the savage British governor-general of the Gold Coast, Frederick Hodgson, demanded the Golden Stool, the symbol of the Asante nation. When her brother died in 1894, Yaa Asantewaa used her right as Queen Mother to nominate her grandson as Ejisuhene. In 1900 she led the Ashanti rebellion known as the War of the Golden Stool against British colonialism.ĭuring her brother’s reign, Yaa Asantewaa saw the Asante Confederacy go through a series of events that threatened its future. Appointed queen mother of Ejisu of the Ashanti Empire-now part of modern day Ghana-by her brother Nana Akwasi Afrane Okpese, the Ejisuhene “ruler of Ejisu”.
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