History · 3 min read
The stool that was never meant to be sat on
It became a symbol of a people, a political idea and a nation’s soul.
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History · 3 min read
A governor asked for a seat, and a war followed
Yaa Asantewaa turned a political crisis into one of the best-known acts of resistance in Ghanaian history.
People · 2 min read
The Miracles of Okomfo Anokye
Awukugua in the Eastern Region, his birthplace, where several of the sites are shown to visitors.
History · 2 min read
The Hundred Years of the Anglo-Asante Wars
Fort Kumasi (Kumasi Fort and Military Museum); the coastal forts at Cape Coast, Elmina and Anomabo.
Culture · 2 min read
What a Stool Is
Any palace stool room; the Manhyia Palace Museum; the woodcarving village of Ahwiaa, outside Kumasi.
People · 2 min read
The Queen Mother
Manhyia, Kumasi; any durbar, where the ɔhemaa sits with her own retinue.
History · 2 min read
Osei Tutu: the hostage who came back
Manhyia Palace Museum, Kumasi; Feyiase, south of Kumasi.
History · 2 min read
Under the Kum Tree: how Kumasi got its name
Kumasi; Bantama; and Kumawu, an hour northeast.
History · 2 min read
The Constitution That Was Written and Then Was Not Allowed
Mankessim, where they met.