Yaa Asantewaa
1840 CE–1921 CE · Kumasi
Yaa Asantewaa (c. 1840–1921) was the Queen Mother of Ejisu in the Ashanti Empire, in present-day Ghana. After the British exiled the Asante king Prempeh I and demanded the Golden Stool, the empire's central symbol of authority, she led an uprising in 1900 known as the War of the Golden Stool. The rebellion besieged the British fort at Kumasi before it was suppressed. She was captured and exiled to the Seychelles, where she died in 1921, and is remembered as a prominent leader of anti-colonial resistance.
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