Remember the splendour of the West African kingdoms from Songhai to Mali and Ghana? Do you remember the Ashanti kingdom and the Golden Stool? The harmattan winds? Growing cocoa and mining gold in ...

ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Seven royal artifacts looted 150 years ago by British colonial forces from Ghana’s ancient Asante kingdom and kept by a United States museum have been returned and presented to the ...

The British empire conquered the powerful Ashanti Kingdom in 1874 after several wars in what is today Ghana. The palace of the then-Asantehene (meaning Asante king), Otumfuo Nana Kofi Karikari and the ...

Undeniably, 2025 was an eventful year, with a mixed bag of tragic, historic and joyous events across the entire Ashanti ...

The Ghana Post announced on May 5 a digital asset collection that commemorates the 25th anniversary of the reign of His Majesty Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the Asantehene, or ruler of the Ashanti people of ...

The Asante empire was a West African state that now occupies present-day South central Ghana and adjacent areas of Togo. The empire lasted from 1701- 1901. Asante means ‘because of war .’It was a word ...