Osei Yaw Akoto
Osei Yaw Akoto (also: Okkoto, Yako Akoto, Yao or just Yaw Akoto) (* approx. 1800 - January 21, 1834 ) was Asantehene (ruler) of the Kingdom of Ashanti from 1824 to 1834 , which from the beginning of the 18th to the middle In the 19th century it dominated the central and later the entire area of today 's Ghana . Yaw Akoto led and lost two wars during his reign against the British, who controlled most of the coastal areas of what is now Ghana.
Immediately after his inauguration, the Ashanti - who shortly before had won a crushing victory over a British army unit under his predecessor Osei Bonsu - were defeated by the British in July 1824, the Ashanti army had to withdraw to the capital Kumasi and the southern vassal states declared theirs Independence. In 1826 the Ashanti suffered a second decisive defeat at Dodowah in another war with the British . Osei Yaw Akoto had thrown his army into battle without adequate preparation and the British used so-called Congreve missiles as weapons for the first time . In 1831 the Ashanti had to recognize the independence of their former vassal states in the south in a treaty with the British governor George Maclean and the Dagomba and Gonja in the north also shook off the rule of the Ashanti.
See also
literature
- Basil Davidson : A History of West Africa. 1000 - 1800. New revised edition, 2nd impression. Longman, London 1977, ISBN 0-582-60340-4 ( The Growth of African Civilization ).
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| SURNAME | Akoto, Osei Yaw |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Asantehene (ruler) of the Ashanti kingdom |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1800 |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 21, 1834 |