Ashanti (people)
The Ashanti , also Asante , are one of the great ethnic groups in West Africa .
The Ashanti live in what is now Ghana . They speak Ashanti Twi, a dialect of the Twi language from the Akan language group . Before European colonialism , there was a large Ashanti kingdom from 1680 to 1900 . The prosperity of the Ashanti stemmed from the region's gold wealth and the slave trade .
slavery
The Ashanti Empire operated on a large scale in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Ashanti kidnapped people who lived in the surrounding states and sold them to Europeans.
Resistance to Europeans
The Ashanti were one of the few peoples in Africa who seriously resisted the European invaders. Within 70 years the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland waged four wars against the Ashanti (1826 to 1896), including one with cannons for the first time . In 1900 the Ashanti Empire was finally subject to the United Kingdom due to its technical inferiority (the British first used modern Maxim machine guns from Vickers ).
present
In 1994 they made the German YMCA Brotherhood Secretary Fritz Pawelzik a chief in the small town of Konongo as "Chief for the Development of Konongo".
Known Ashanti
- Kofi Karikari (1837-1884), Asantehene (ruler) of the Kingdom of Ashanti
- Kwasi Wiredu , philosopher
- Akwasi Afrifa , former President of Ghana
- Ignatius Kutu Acheampong , former President of Ghana
- John Agyekum Kufuor , former President of Ghana
- Anthony Yeboah , former professional soccer player
- Gerald Asamoah , German professional footballer
- Samuel Kuffour , Ghanaian professional soccer player
- Peter Mensah , Canadian film actor
literature
- Robert Sutherland Rattray : Religion and Art in Ashanti . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1927
- Peter Altenberg : Ashantee . Fischer, Berlin 1897
- Martin Cruz Smith : The Black Rose . Knaus, 1996 (historical novel)
- Yaa Gyasi : Homegoing . Alfred A. Knopf, New York 2016, ISBN 978-1-10194-713-5 (historical novel)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ CVJM Ostwerk eV: Fritz Pawelzik is dead. Retrieved on February 24, 2015