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Yaa Asantewaa and the Asante-British War of 1900-1
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Yaa Asantewaa and the Asante-British War of 1900-1

Author: A Adu Boahen; Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong
Publisher: Accra : Sub-Saharan Publishers ; Oxford [U.K.] : James Currey, 2003.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Yaa Asantewaa was one of Ghana's most famous queen mothers. She took a leading role in the final Asante-British war. In this volume historian A. Adu Boahen examines her role in the war. He draws on  Read more...

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Boahen, A. Adu.
Yaa Asantewaa and the Asante-British War of 1900-1.
Accra : Sub-Saharan Publishers ; Oxford [U.K.] : James Currey, 2003
(OCoLC)607064839
Named Person: Yaa Asantewaa
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: A Adu Boahen; Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong
ISBN: 9988550995 9789988550998 0852554435 9780852554432 9988550642 9789988550646
OCLC Number: 54383854
Description: 182 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Contents: Editor's note by Emmanuel Akyampong - The outbreak of the Yaa Asantewaa war - The weapons & strategies used in the war - The duration & the phases of the war - The role of Nana Yaa Asantewaa in the war - The end of the war.
Responsibility: A. Adu Boahen ; edited with editor's note by Emmanuel Akyeampong.

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'...presents her as a feisty, small-built woman, aged about sixty in 1900, who was one of the main instigators of the war - ...and the principal war leader.' - ARAS Australia 'Boahen has done well Read more...

 
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