The Golden Stool is the highly revered, sacred and physical symbol of Asante power and unity. The Golden Stool was conjured from the skies by Komfo Anokye, the fetish priest and counsellor of Opemsuo ...
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play videoThe Golden Stool (L) and Dormaahene Osagyefo Oseadeeyo Agyeman Badu II (R) Historian Anokye Frimpong has weighed in on the ongoing debate around the Golden Stool, which the Paramount Chief ...
Right now, Yoruba are no longer looking at Igboho as a person. They see him as symbolising the Asantehene Golden Stool, which Buhari wants to impudently snatch from them. They are rallying round and ...
The Asante people were originally one of a number of Akan people, all paying tribute to the Denkyira. They lived in what today is modern Ghana - not to be confused with Ancient Ghana. In the 1670's, a ...