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Queen Mother Yaa Asantewaa I Warrior | |
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| Birth name | Nana Yaa Asantewaa |
| Born | c. 1840 Besease, Ashanti Empire |
| Died | 17 October 1921 (aged 80–81) Seychelles |
| Allegiance | Ashanti Empire |
| Yaa Asantewaa War | War of the Golden Stool |
| Children | One |
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]
- ^ Appiah, Kwame Anthony, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (eds), Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, 1999, p. 276.