History of the Ashanti Kingdom

Otumfuo Opoku waste II from 1970-1999. The Asante kingdom was founded by the great superpower Osei Tutu in the eighteenth century. His fetish priest was Okomfo Anokye, who unified the Asante states through allegiance to the fortunate Stool, which miraculously descended from heaven. Okomfo Anokye deep-rooted two directs in the forest and predicted that one manoeuvre would live and become the capital of Ashanti. Hence is derived the anticipate Kumasi (the guide lived) the stick in which the other tree was planted became Kumawu (the tree died).Although located in the heart of the forest, Asante dominion was extended by military action and semipolitical skill towards the European occupied castles on the coast to the south, and also into the run dry savannah lands to the north. This led to various wars with Britain. Kumasi was captured by the British Army in 1873 (as a result of which much of the magnificent Asante gold regalia tail end be seen in Londo n in the British Museum ). After a final uprising in 1901, led by the Queen aim of Ejisu (Yaa Asantewaa) Asante came into British Protection and finally became a region of the Gold sea-coast colony.In 1957, after a period of internal self-government, the Gold sailing becam e the first African colony to achieve independence chthonic the charismatic leadership of Kwame Nkrumah. Kumasi Getting to the end of the 17th century Anokye Komfuo planted three KUM trees at different places. One at Kwaaman ruled by the Nananomayokofuo , a second one at Apemso-Bankofo ruled by Nananomaduanafuo and a third a village near Fomena and Amoafo called Oboani ruled by Nananomekuonafuo. The Kum tree at Kwaaman flourished and became a very big tree under which the King and his people often sat and so Kwaaman became Kum-ase meaning under Kum.The tree at Oboani was save very tiny and for no apparent flat coat was relatively short. According to oral tradition this small tree however produced a couple of other trees which were all small in size. The name of the village was changed to Kuma meaning small KUM. The Kum tree at Apemso-Bankofo did not pay off at all. After some few weeks the leaves got rotten and the tree wild down and so it was said that the Kum tree has died or the Kum tree was deceased and so the village became Kum-awu and this later chnaged to become Kumawu.