STORYTIME: The Legend of the Ashanti Queen Mother, Yaa Asantewaa
It’s the late 1800s in the Ashanti Kingdom —modern-day Ghana—, and a few years ago, there was a wide-scale arrest of the kingdom’s leadership by the British government. This arrest included the king of the Ashanti Kingdom, the Asantehene Agyeman Prempeh I, his immediate relatives, and kings and chiefs of neighboring kingdoms. Now, British Governor, […]