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Yaa Asantewaa Festival - Homage To An Asante Queen
24/07/2006	Page 1 of 2

Long before the so-called “superwomen” of the 20^th and 21^st centuries, Yaa Asantewaa was juggling several obligations. A member of the Asona Royal Family, Yaa Asantewaa was born around 1832 and was first a woman who satisfied many of the roles expected of an Asante woman, including marriage, childbirth and performing household chores. As with other ethnic groupings in Ghana, Asante women, are often the economic backbone of the family and Yaa Asantewaa was known to be a hardworking farmer, growing plantain, cocoyam, groundnuts and onions to sustain her family. In 1877, when she was in her mid 40s, she was installed Queen of Edweso (now spelt Ejisu), later becoming the Paramount Chief of Edweso when her grandson, Akwasi Agrane Kuma, the Chief of Edweso, was sent into exile in 1896. According to all accounts, her reign as Queen and later Chief was distinguished by her sense of fairness and objectivity, as well as her readiness to defend women’s rights whenever the opportunity arose, clamping down heavily on rape, domestic abuse and crimes against the vulnerable in the Edweso society. For all her achievements, it was for her role as General and war strategist that she is celebrated. Incensed by the demands of Governor Sir Frederick Hodgson, she rallied the Asante nation to war, taking on the role of Commander-In-Chief. One of her challenges was to raise a sizeable army to meet the British threat, and here her charisma and bravery inspired many to follow. For the less willing, sex was used as a recruitment tool. The partners of men who refused to be drafted were encouraged to refuse the “cowards” sex, a tactic which was hugely successful. Yaa Asantewaa proved to be an astute strategist, counting roadblocks on all routes leading to Kumasi to halt the advance of British reinforcement. Telegraph poles were also destroyed to disable communication between Asante and the coast, laying the found for the siege of the Kumasi Fort, where the governor and his people were trapped. Asirifi-Danquah, in his biography of Yaa Asantewaa, estimates that there were 3,500 adults and 200 children besieged in the fort. The assault on the fort was relentless, despite the killing of 150 Asante troops in the encounter and the arrival of reinforcement from Lagos under a British captain. Meanwhile, the occupants of the fort were ravaged by disease, starvation and death, with Sir Frederick making at least two attempts to negotiate a ceasefire with Yaa Asantewaa. On each occasion, however, he refused to accept the terms of the Asante Commander-In-Chief, which included the return of the exiled royals. Asirifi-Danquah records that 30 to 50 occupants of the fort died of starvation and disease every day. The inmates, having run out of supplies, were buying a mouse for a penny, a rat for four pence and a spoonful of whisky for two pence. It is instructive to note that occasionally, Yaa Asantewaa allowed supplies of food to be sent to the fort to ameliorate the suffering of her enemies. Remarkably, Governor Hodgson, for reasons which cannot be fully examined here, managed to escape. The Asante were eventually defeated with the arrival of further reinforcement and superior firepower. Yaa Asantewaa was betrayed and captured while in hiding at Sreso Timponmu, 130 kilometres from Kumasi, thereby ending the last significant attempt by the Asante people to halt the machinery of British military and cultural imperialism.

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