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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: 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 |
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| 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 to extol the virtues of this extraordinary woman, showing beyond doubt that she came to exercise a quite decisive influence on the course of the war even if the extent to which she herself actually engaged in combat remains moot.' - African History 'There has long been a need for the definitive story of Yaa Asantewaa, the famed Queen Mother of Kumasi, who was the inspirational leader behind the great Asante war of resistance of 1900-01 against British domination. This need has now been met in a fine biography by the doyen of Ghanaian historians, A Adu Boahen, writing with the assistance of one of his former students, Emmanuel Akyeampong. 'In addition to its being an excellent biography of a great woman, this is the best book on Yaa Asantewaa War to-date. It is Boahen's overarching thesis, and a major revision over most previous mainstream accounts, that this conflict was no mere "rebellion" against colonial rule but rather "the Asante War of Independence". 'This is a well-researched, well reasoned and finely written book, which will long stand as the standard treatment of the great Queen Mother, Yaa Asantewaa, and the Asante-British War of 1900-01. Raymond E Dumett in The Historian Read more...
