The bloody but inspiring origin of the name 'Asante'

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  • Babangida Casagrande 7 months ago

    The new Asantis are deferential, most of the real good ones are the ones who are fluent in Hausa languages trust me I did my research

  • Yaa Yaa 7 months ago

    Wo yare; you dey sick. What has hausa got to do with Asante?

  • Illiterate write-up 7 months ago

    This write-up must have been done by a class 5 Ewe or Dormaa buffoon. Is history being taught in primary and high schools in Ghana as it used to be taught in the 60s and 70s?
    If the one who posted this trash learnt history, ...
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  • IS THIS PART OF THE AYIGBE-PEPE RESET AGENDA? 7 months ago

    When did the Portuguese claim to have discovered the Gold Coast now Ghana? Did Ashanti exist then? They met the Fanti (an offshoot of Bono), met the Ga who had migrated around about the same period from Ile-Ife and Ayigbe, sa ...
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  • This etymology can’t be true—the derivand betrays Akan grammar — the Fante’s call the Asante people Esuanter and that must be the original derivand; actually the the word is not Asanti; it is rather Asante /asantI/ 7 months ago

    The Fante’s have the original name of the Asante people —- Esuanter which is not based on csa and Enti — know that the last sound of Asanti is not i, it is rather e /I/.

  • Straight Talk 7 months ago

    WHY DID THE SMALL INDEPENDENT STATES COME TOGETHER ?

    BECAUSE THEY FEARED THE POWERFUL STATES LIKE DENKYIRA AND BONO AT THE TIME.

    IT IS BECAUSE OF FEAR ( 3HU NTI) = 3HUNTIFOUR.

  • Yaa Yaa 7 months ago

    @Straight Talk; akoa agyimi

  • Asantenii 7 months ago

    Hahaha...u re so funny

  • Major 7 months ago

    We don't care about this.

  • Let The Parrot Parrot 7 months ago

    What was the name of Asantes before the war or what was their original name or they were a tribe without name?

  • Nsia 7 months ago

    There was a town called Tafo and Kwaaman in present day Kumasi. Mampong, was a state in the 1600s, but they weren't called Asantes. The Dutch who came to the Gold Coast in the late 1590s, had a map drawn up in the 1620s. Now ...
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  • War Monger 7 months ago

    The current so called Ashanti empire is a fake fasad of incomplete Akans interbreeding with Mosi and frafra people to Create this people.
    The real Akan empires are the Bono's, Denkyira ,Akyem, Fante tribes. That is the real ...
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  • Kwaseato, they beat your ancestors 7 months ago

    They beat your ancestors, and took over your lands. Continue to burn inside for your ancestors defeat

  • Mohammed Mukarram 7 months ago

    The whole story is fabricated, concocted, lies, false and not true

  • Kwadwo Kyei 7 months ago

    Why don't you give us your authentic or unfabricated version? We are dying to hear it. Funny story tellers.

  • Dallas1 7 months ago

    According to the article "When Osei Tutu returned from exile in Akwamu, he brought Anikye back to Kumasi". For those who are familiar with the history of Kumasi and Kumawu, how do you reconcile the fact that Anokye was brough ...
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  • Okomfo Anokye's grand deception 7 months ago

    Very good write up. Nearly at par with Adu Boahen, FK Bual, T A osae and other great historians. The final war was fought near Kumasi at a great cost to Asante and Kumawu which culminated in the sacrifice of Barima Tweneboa K ...
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  • Kotibrim 7 months ago

    Asante means hard at hearing. Asu ante!!!

  • Asante Kingdom 7 months ago

    During World War 2 the British named their Biggest Warship "Ashanti" to celebrate the Bravery of the Asante Kingdom.

  • Jonald Drump 7 months ago

    Bloody it is for the Real truth,,,????
    ,,yet call others.....
    Ati ti krɔno,,,to wit murderous...
    The propaganda entrenched bigotry drenched in self aggrandizement...

  • Slim 7 months ago

    Irrespective of our tribes, majority of Africans live in squalor.

  • Kwadwo Kyei 7 months ago

    What has this story got to do with Africans living in squalor? Or you just felt like insulting Africans? Whatever your own background is, shame on.you. You couldn't even reveal your identity. Maybe your village folks live in ...
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  • Martin Kreisler 7 months ago

    Point of correction GhanaWeb.
    The original state ruled by the Oyoko Clan, was known as KWAMAN, at the time the Asantes first migrated to present day Ghana from the Kingdom of Quagadou (often refered to as the Ghana Empire). ...
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  • Elizabeth 7 months ago

    The narrative is that Osei Tutu met Okomfo Anokye at Akwamu. Who was he then. Did he meet him as an Asante or Akwamu? What was Okomfo Anokye doing at Akwamu then. Was he practicing his spiritualism already there at Akwamu or ...
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  • Nsia 7 months ago

    @Elizabeth,Okomfo Anokye, was actually from Adansi Akrokyere. His parents were from the same place. He is actually related to Osei Tutu"s mum. Manu. He was a prisoner in Akwamu. There is no truth in the crap peddled by the ...
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  • Albert Kessel 7 months ago

    Historical records state that Okomfo Anokye was from AWUKUGUA,Akuapem.

  • )tan Nni Aduro 7 months ago

    Distorted Ananse story. What is the difference between asantefo ne Ntafo....???

  • Bastie The emperor of Kumasi 7 months ago

    Something is going on with Ghanaweb . There’s an agenda to project Asante .

    How many articles per day will you write about Asante. Useless website