Nana Yaa Asantewaa Ft: Osei Kwame Korankye - praise song
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Nana Yaa Asantewaa was born in 1840 in Besease Ghana, West Africa.
She was the Asantehemaa ( Queen Mother ) of the Ashanti people, in the West African State known as Ghana.
In 1900 the Ashanti, led by Nana Yaa Asantewaa, militarily engaged the forces of the British Empire, in what became known as 'The War Of The Golden Stool '.
The Golden stool is the ultimate sacred symbol of the Ashanti peoples identity and sovereignty .
The war ended with Nana Yaa Asantewaa surrendering to the British in exchange for the freedom of her daughter, who had been captured days earlier.
Nana Yaa Asantewaa was exiled to the Seychelles, where she died on October 17th 1921.
Although the history books consider the Ashanti as having lost the war, the British forces did not capture the Golden Stool.
To this day the Golden Stool stands as a powerful symbol of unity, defiance and of an unbroken spirit in the face of Colonial adventurism.
Had the Golden Stool been captured, it would be now languishing in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, as a trophy of war.'
2021 marks the Centenary of Nana Yaa Asantewaas' transition to the land of the Ancestors.
Artist Paul Clarkson pays homage to his Ashanti heritage, by marking the occasion with a series of portraits of Nana Yaa Asantewaa drawn from some of the surviving 19th Century photographs that remain.
Nana Yaa Asantewaas' likeness has been digitally restored, colorized and through the art of collage re-imagined.
The portraits convey aspects of the character of Nana Yaa Asantewaa that was majestically uncompromising when it came to the sovereignty of her people.
She was the Asantehemaa ( Queen Mother ) of the Ashanti people, in the West African State known as Ghana.
In 1900 the Ashanti, led by Nana Yaa Asantewaa, militarily engaged the forces of the British Empire, in what became known as 'The War Of The Golden Stool '.
The Golden stool is the ultimate sacred symbol of the Ashanti peoples identity and sovereignty .
The war ended with Nana Yaa Asantewaa surrendering to the British in exchange for the freedom of her daughter, who had been captured days earlier.
Nana Yaa Asantewaa was exiled to the Seychelles, where she died on October 17th 1921.
Although the history books consider the Ashanti as having lost the war, the British forces did not capture the Golden Stool.
To this day the Golden Stool stands as a powerful symbol of unity, defiance and of an unbroken spirit in the face of Colonial adventurism.
Had the Golden Stool been captured, it would be now languishing in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, as a trophy of war.'
2021 marks the Centenary of Nana Yaa Asantewaas' transition to the land of the Ancestors.
Artist Paul Clarkson pays homage to his Ashanti heritage, by marking the occasion with a series of portraits of Nana Yaa Asantewaa drawn from some of the surviving 19th Century photographs that remain.
Nana Yaa Asantewaas' likeness has been digitally restored, colorized and through the art of collage re-imagined.
The portraits convey aspects of the character of Nana Yaa Asantewaa that was majestically uncompromising when it came to the sovereignty of her people.