Yaa Asantewaa

Queen Mother

Yaa Asantewaa I

Warrior
Birth nameNana Yaa Asantewaa
Bornc. 1840 (1840)
Besease, Ashanti Empire
Died17 October 1921(1921-10-17) (aged 80–81)
Seychelles
AllegianceAshanti Empire
Yaa Asantewaa WarWar of the Golden Stool
ChildrenOne

Yaa Asantewaa I (c. 1840 – 17 October 1921) was the Queen Mother of Ejisu in the Ashanti Empire, now part of modern-day Ghana. She was appointed by her brother Nana Akwasi Afrane Okese, the Edwesuhene, or ruler, of Edwesu. In 1900, she led the Ashanti war also known as the War of the Golden Stool, or the Yaa Asantewaa War of Independence, against the British Empire.[1]

  1. ^ Appiah, Kwame Anthony, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (eds), Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, 1999, p. 276.