Asantehemaa Marks Eight Years on the Golden StoolThe Asantehemaa, Nana Konadu Yiadom III, has marked her eighth year as the Queen Mother of the Ashanti Kingdom, a milestone celebrated with reverence ...

Remember the splendour of the West African kingdoms from Songhai to Mali and Ghana? Do you remember the Ashanti kingdom and the Golden Stool? The harmattan winds? Growing cocoa and mining gold in ...

His fetish priest was Okomfo Anokye, who unified the Asante states through allegiance to the Golden Stool, which miraculously ... the Gold Coast becam e the first African colony to achieve ...

Akan religion The Golden Stool was a sacred object and Asante ... was a powerful kingdom located in West Africa. The Asante Empire began in 1701 when military leader Osei Tutu defeated ...