Yaa Asantewaa
Female, Deceased Person
1840 – 1921
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Who was Yaa Asantewaa?
Yaa Asantewaa was 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 Edweso". In 1900 she led the Ashanti rebellion known as the War of the Golden Stool against British colonialism.
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