Kaya Maghan
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RT @DingaCisse: Scenes at Kwame Afframs enstoolment before he takes his oath as Omanhene of Kumawu (An Asante state). August 1925, Kumawu i….
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RT @DingaCisse: A photograph of Ya Aduna the granddaughter of the then Queen-mother of Kumawu (Kumawuhemaa) Ya Amponsa. Circa 1921-32, Kuma….
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An enstoolment is analogous to an enthronement, but is referred to as such because of the societal importance of stools and the particular stools that represent specific leaders.
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Kumawu is one of the first Asante states. According to oral tradition the name means where the Kum (Banyan) tree died, because when the priest Okomfo Anokye planted a tree in both Kumasi (Kwaman at the time) and what would become Kumawu to decide where the Asante capital would be.
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One of the places in southern Asante where Rattray witnessed an Adae ceremony.
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, the tree died in Kumawu but lived in Kumasi and thus Kumasi became the Asante capital.
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Kumawu is one of the first Asante states. According to oral tradition the name means where the Kum (Banyan) tree died, because when the priest Okomfo Anokye planted a tree in both Kumasi (Kwaman at the time) and what would become Kumawu to decide where the Asante capital would be.
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Scenes at Kwame Afframs enstoolment before he takes his oath as Omanhene of Kumawu (An Asante state). August 1925, Kumawu in what is now the Ashanti Region in Ghana.
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A photograph of Ya Aduna the granddaughter of the then Queen-mother of Kumawu (Kumawuhemaa) Ya Amponsa. Circa 1921-32, Kumawu, in what is now the Ashanti Region in Ghana
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RT @DingaCisse: Doesn’t show up in my media for some reason so I’m posting this view of Kumasi
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RT @DingaCisse: At its height the west of the Asante empire stretched out of Ghana into some of Cote D’ivoire’s hinterland and along the co….
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