The Building of Nana Yaa Asantewaa's Musuem
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NANA KOFI OPOKU 1st is the nkosuohene of EJISUMAN. His goal is to re-build the Nana Yaa Asantewaa Ejisu Museum by 2021. The idea behind the Museum restoration is to preserve the legacy of Nana Yaa Asantewaa by restoring a former burnt down Nana Yaa Asantewaa Museum in her honor, in the very town Nana Yaa Asantewaa former Museum was burnt down in over 8 years ago, in Ejisu Municipal Assembly, a municipality of the Ashanti Region, Ghana.
Let’s together deliver a new museum in 2021 to mark 100 years of Nana Yaa Asantewaa's remarkable Journey of life.
Viewed widely in Ghanaian and African history as a ‘Warrior Queen’ Yaa Asantewaa is the epitome of the strength of a woman. Leading the Ashanti war known as the War of the Golden Stool against British colonialism, her legacy still remains. Yaa Asantewaa (17 October 1840 - 17 October 1921) was the queen mother of Ejisu in the Ashanti Empire - now part of modern-day Ghana - appointed by her brother Nana Akwasi Afrane Opese, the Edwesuhene, or ruler, of Edwesu. In 1900 she led the Ashanti war known as the War of the Golden Stool, also known as the Yaa Asantewaa War, against British colonialism. Born in 1840 in Besease by Kwaku Ampoma and Ata Po in southern Ghana, Yaa Asantewaa was the oldest of two children. Her brother, Afrane Panin, became the chief of Edweso, a nearby community.
During her brother's reign, Yaa Asantewaa saw the Ashanti Confederacy went through a series of events that threatened its future, including civil war from 1883 to 1888. When her brother died in 1894, Yaa Asantewaa used her right as Queen Mother to nominate her own grandson as Ejisuhene. When the British exiled him to the Seychelles in 1896, along with the King of Asante Prempeh I and other members of the Asante government, Yaa Asantewaa became regent of the Ejisu-Juaben district. After the deportation of Prempeh I, the British governor-general of the Gold Coast, Frederick Hodgson, demanded the Golden Stool, the symbol of the Asante nation. This request led to a secret meeting of the remaining members of the Asante government at Kumasi, to discuss how to secure the return of their king. There was a disagreement among those present on how to go about this. Yaa Asantewaa, who was present at this meeting, stood and addressed the members of the council with these now-famous words:
How can a proud and brave people like the Asante sit back and look while white men took away their king and chiefs, and humiliated them with a demand for the Golden Stool. The Golden Stool only means money to the whitemen; they have searched and dug everywhere for it. I shall not pay one predwan to the governor. If you, the chiefs of Asante, are going to behave like cowards and not fight, you should exchange your loincloths for my undergarments (Montu mo danta mma me na monnye me tam).
To dramatize her determination to go to war she seized a gun and fired a shot in front of the men.
Yaa Asantewaa was chosen by a number of regional Asante kings to be the war-leader of the Asante fighting force. This is the first and only example for a woman to be given that role in Asante history. The Ashanti-British War of the Golden Stool - also known as the "Yaa Asantewaa War"- was led by Queen Mother Nana Yaa Asantewaa with an army of 5,000.
She died in 1921. She was a successful farmer and mother. She was an intellectual, a politician, human rights activist, queen, and a leader. Yaa Asantewaa became famous for leading the Ashanti rebellion against British colonialism to defend the Golden Stool.
Beginning in March 1900, the rebellion laid siege to the fort at Kumasi where the British had sought refuge. The fort still stands today as the Kumasi Fort and Military Museum. After several months, the Gold Coast governor eventually sent a force of 1,400 to quell the rebellion. During the fighting, Queen Yaa Asantewaa and fifteen of her closest advisers were captured, and they, too, were sent into exile to Seychelles.The rebellion represented the final war in the Anglo-Asante series of wars that lasted throughout the 19th century. On 1 January 1902, the British fully seized the land that the Asante army had been defending from them for almost a century, and the Asante empire was made a protectorate of the British crown.
Yaa Asantewaa died in exile in Seychelles on 17 October 1921. Three years after her death, on 17 December 1924, Prempeh I and the other remaining members of the exiled Asante court were allowed to return to Asante. Prempeh I made sure that the remains of Yaa Asantewaa and the other exiled Asantes were returned for a proper royal burial.
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