Yaa Asantewaa, Asante Warrior Queen 

I have tears in my eyes. Thank you for this video. And the respectful manner in which you told it. Being a Black American, it’s so frustrating not learning our history in schools. Long live Ghana 🇬🇭 and her people!

She is from my country. I’m so proud to be an Ashanti woman. Thanks for doing this, much appreciated.

I am actually a descendant of Yaa so I feel sick happy to learn more abt my ancestors! I love my native country of Ghana, we are a powerful people!

Yesss another African Royal history video! We don't get to hear a lot of this in our education system, so I'm always so excited when you make a video about it! Thank you Lindsay!!

This queen is amazing! Standing strong in the face of oppression. And learning about maternal power in a society for once is not only refreshing but also incredibly awe-inspiring! 👑 Thank you for sharing the story of another great African queen! ❤

This hits home for me. I’m an Asante and proud.

It's so frustrating how American history teaches us that everyone but Europeans were roving bands of primitive hunter gatherers. Thank you for sharing some of the history of my people.

Yes! More African Kings and Queens, please! Ethiopia is a great place to start!

Thanks for highlighting a strong woman from my country! Proud to be a Ghanaian ❤️

Loving Queens of the world series it's just so wholesome

This is a wonderful video! My little sister is named Ashanti, so I learned about some of this history as a kid in the months before she was born. I learned some things I didn't know while getting a refresher on things I hadn't thought about for years. Thank you for this detailed and respectful video, and for not sugar coating the ugly parts of history. I look forward to more videos on African history! Keep up your good work.

Yes we love an informative video that decentralizes European history! (I love all your videos but it’s definitely nice to have balanced content that is honest about the context of colonialism!)

Please do more videos on non-European royalty as many of the history textbooks taught in those countries never truly speaks on what those royals did to others of the same title they deemed less than themselves. History is written by the victors, I love to see the history of the ‘losers’.

Ayekoo Ghana!!! I loved teaching about her when I lived there 🇬🇭❤️ Thank you for expanding your series to include her brave story!

Especially in the Caribbean where most of the people are black, this is what we should be learning. This is the first time am hearing about Queen Yaa. How many other black queen we have lost in history. When are the British going to return African artifact back to it's country. Great work on this.... Thank you

This is great, I am from Kumasi, I learnt about her at a very young age. She is a role model for both boys and girls growing up. I am Adwoa, because I am born on a Monday. This is great Lindsey!

See THIS is what I would like to see made into a movie with a cast of talented black actors (in stead of just dressing them up as Regency characters or Anne Boley !). So fascinating to watch, have learnt something new today!

I’m so excited to be hearing some Ghanaian history! Thank you so much for this! 🇬🇭❤️

Thank you so much for this historical picture of African history. It is so rare to gain historical accounts of the wars that were fought in Africa, and when we DO learn of them, it's usually from a Eurocentric perspective. Being both Native and African American, information like this is very important to me. Thank you for sharing this documentary about this queen, as I never would've known of her otherwise.

Thank you for the wonderful job you did making this video. As always, you handled a complex, difficult subject with a lot of respect and care. Not only should learning about this powerful queen be an inspiration for people of African descent, but she should be an inspiration to women everywhere. It is doubly shameful that students (particularly in the U.S.) are not taught her story.

Lindsay, thank you so muh for this video. As an African American I am embarrassed with how little I was talked about my hertiage. Back when I was in school they only touched breifly on Egypt and in my texts books they were depited as white. Please ontiue to do more of these videos. And thank you

As a person who is from Ghana, I can confirm this is basically stuff that happens. It is sometimes still a large influence. 😍😍

Hello Lindsay - Great video. Can we please see more videos like these? I appreciate all the work involve in creating RU-vid historical videos - you know, doing research, looking for photos, etc. We need more videos like these as it helps various students learn about the world and the various cultures out there we may not be aware of. The world is big and very diverse and videos like these helps us understand the world more than ever. Thank you for doing this. Great job!

Yessss as a Ghanaian American I love this 🇬🇭🇬🇭👏👏

as someone who is actually related to her THANK YOU for this

Thank you so very much for this video. As an Ashanti, it was refreshing to note your narration of our history. But one point of correction, the Asantehene is not a paramount chief but king of Ashanti. He has the power to appoint paramount chiefs and so, he's higher than a paramount chief. They (paramount chiefs) swear an oath of allegiance to the Asantehene and serve under him as their king. Thank you

The fact that im currently studying for an exam on this is amazing✨ Proud Ghanaian here😘

Thank you so much for this video! You took the time to learn how to pronounce the names and have given them just as much regal justice as the European royalty

An icon, the British colonisers really did ruin everything 😻

*I was going “YES QUEEN!” throughout the whole video*

Omg I’m Ghanaian 🇬🇭😭😭 I was shocked seeing this on your channel. love your videos; I’ve been tuning in from time to time and I’m gonna subscribe🥰🤍

Thank you so much for this! As ana African American woman, we are often not granted the simple luxury of knowing our genetic history due to slavery. These kind of stories make me feel closer though.

Hello everybody my name is Asantewaa my mother named me after this Queen and made sure I new who she was but I’m excited to see this about the Queen that I was named after

YESSSS MY COUNTRY 🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭 Lovely video!!

It's really nice to learn more about non-European Royals! That's why I love this channel. I hope you could also make a video about Korea's formidable Queen Min who was assassinated by the Japanese to fast track their colonization and annexation of Korea.

Learning about the Anante People was great experience for me! I have great respect for these warriors who have fought for their land and their independence. Just goes to show how women can be more powerful than a man. I love this culture and how power is passed down from women to women. 🇬🇭

Thank you Lindsay for covering her history🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭

Yaa was a strong and l am proud of being Ghanaian

Thank you for highlighting this wonderful and powerful woman. We need more videos like this. There is not a lot taught about the African Queens and there should be as they were righteous and powerful leaders in their own right and deserve to be remembered for what they did for their respective tribes/families/countries. Thank you very much for this wonderful piece of education about a BAMF woman from history!

Beautifully done, Lindsey! We need more African and Asian queens

I'm a Ghanaian🇬🇭 born in Germany. Yaa Asantewaa you are a hero

yay! i am nigerian and love to see african history being shared! thank you lindsay!

Thanks Lindsay, its hard to believe the British didn't manage to get their hands on the stool even after all that.

Love this! In school the only time we learned about african history was during the Stone Age and slavery and that’s it, we didn’t learn about any culture or innovations. Love when you make videos about lesser known kingdoms and monarchs

Yes, yes, yes! Love this video! Please highlight more African queens!

Now, this is an awesome video! It's great to see the Asante Kingdom getting more attention, It should be at least as well known as the Zulu, if not more. The parts about matrilinear inheritance and the role of the queen mothers were particularly interesting. I think that this video spoke more about this aspect than the other videos on this topic I've watched.

I love African history! Their history and cultures are so beautiful. More of these like this please!

This is stuff I wished I learned in school. Yaa is inspiring

I just shared this with my family. They love it.

Thank you for another African Queen Lindsay!!💜✨

YES! THIS IS THE ONE. As someone of Ghanaian descent, thank you!

Love her! I’d never heard of her before this video.

Wonderful video, I love learning about African countries; their cultures, customs, spirituality, daily life, laws, and more! Especially pre-colonization. This was well done, I look forward to more!

what an amazing woman

This proves that the Ashantis and the British history never lie.

This was so interesting, I'm pretty ignorant about African history and it's so refreshing to hear about it

Omg!! My mother has that art in her living room. The woman in blue, so beautiful.❤️❤️

What a powerful story!

Great and quite informative video, especially during Black History month... As an African American, I wasn't taught Africa's history in school, I had to learn most things through my grandfather, books and now you. Thank you ♥️♥️

Love all of your videos! I subbed because of the LGBT+ rulers video a while back and signed up for your Patreon thanks to this one. Would love to see your deep dives on other non-Euro royalty! Like others here I'm Black American and constantly seeking out pre-colonial/pre-slavery information on Africa.

Your research is impeccable 🙌🏽

Found this among your older videos (recent subscriber here), as someone of Ghanaian descent this made me feel insanely proud of my heritage. I had heard a little from the Golden Stool War, but wasn't aware about how bad*ss Yaa Asantewaa was! Thank you for this respectful portrayal of events and a refreshingly inspiring video about an African nation!

Lindsay you are amazing!! thank you so much for doing this. I think I requested this when you did the Queen Nzinga video, so thank you for doing the story of the Queen Mother of Ejisu. Also, for a none Ghanaian, your pronunciation is on point :) Could you do Queen Amanirenas of Nubia next?

Thanks for this wonderful video of a brave and powerful woman who stood up against oppression!

Yesss!! I’m so glad you did a video on her! I learned about her when I lived in Ghana! She was a fearless leader. 💕💕

Thank you for all the research that went into making this video. The narrative brought me to tears. New to this channel and so the binge begins. Best regards from Zimbabwe 🇿🇼

I love that people in Central and South America, Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia wore and had gold like it was just another piece of clothing before colonization.

Beautiful brave woman

Thank you so much for making this video! Just being able to learn about my ancestral history and heritage gives me a sense of honor and pride!

This piece of history is very inspiring! I got chills just by learning a snippet of it

Yes!!! Ghana Pride!!🤩

This was absolutely fascinating to hear, thank you for sharing!

I saw the Puppet History episode on his lady, she’s in my top 10 most badass people to ever exist

Amazing video, but a bittersweet history. Sweet in the sense that the Asante were great, and not completely erased by revisionist history. But then bitter in the sense that they indeed played a part in the Atlantic slave trade; of course they couldn't have known the horrors that would befall enslaved African people in the Americas.

In Focus: *Yaa Asantewaa I* *Yaa Asantewaa I* was born in 1840 in Besease in the Ashanti Region. Her brother, *Afrane Panin*, became the Chief of Edweso, a nearby community. After a childhood without incident, she cultivated crops on the land around *Boankra.* She entered a polygamous marriage with a man from Kumasi, with whom she had a daughter. During her brother's reign, *Yaa Asantewaa I* saw the Asante Confederacy go through a series of events that threatened its future, including a civil war from 1883 to 1888. When her brother died in 1894, *Yaa Asantewaa I* used her right as Queen Mother to nominate her own grandson as Ejisuhene. When the British exiled her grandson to the *Republic Seychelles* in 1896, along with the King of Asante *Prempeh I* (Prince Kwaku Dua III) and other members of the Asante government, *Yaa Asantewaa I* became regent of the Ejisu-Juaben district. After the exile of *Prempeh I,* the British governor-general of the Gold Coast, *Frederick Hodgson,* demanded the *Golden Stool,* the symbol of the Asante Nation. This request led to a secret meeting of the remaining members of the Asante government at Kumasi, to discuss how to secure the return of their *King.* There was a disagreement among those present on how to go about this. *Yaa Asantewaa I*, who was present at this meeting, stood and addressed the members of the council with these words: "How can a proud and brave people like the Asante sit back and look while white men took away their King and Chiefs, and humiliated them with a demand for the Golden Stool. The Golden Stool only means money to the whitemen; they have searched and dug everywhere for it. I shall not pay one predwan to the governor. If you, the chiefs of Asante, are going to behave like cowards and not fight, you should exchange your loincloths for my undergarments *(Montu mo danta mma me na monnye me tam).* To dramatize her determination to go to war she seized a gun and fired a shot in front of the men. *Yaa Asantewaa I* was chosen by a number of regional Asante Chiefs to be the war-leader of the Asante fighting force. This is the *first and only example for a woman* to be given that role in Asante history. The Ashanti-British *War of the Golden Stool* also known as the Asante Uprising, the Third Asante Expedition, the *"Yaa Asantewaa War"* was led by Queen Mother Nana Yaa Asantewaa with an army of *5,000.* Beginning in March 1900, the Rebellion laid siege to the *fort* at Kumasi where the British had sought refuge. The fort still stands today as the *Kumasi Fort and Military Museum*. After several months, the Gold Coast governor eventually sent a force of *1,400* to quell the rebellion. During the fighting, Queen *Yaa Asantewaa I and fifteen of her closest advisers* were captured, and they, too, were sent into exile to the Republic of Seychelles. The rebellion represented the *final war in the Anglo-Asante series of wars* that lasted throughout the 19th century. On *1 January 1902* the British finally annexed the territory that the *Asante Empire* had been controlling for almost a century, and the Asante was transformed a protectorate of the *British crown.* Queen *Yaa Asantewaa I* died in exile in the Seychelles on *17 October 1921* at the age of 81. Three years after her death, on 17 December 1924, Asantehene *Prempeh I and the other remaining members of the exiled Asante court* were allowed to return to Asante. King *Prempeh I* made sure that the remains of Queen *Yaa Asantewaa I and the other exiled Asantes* were returned for a proper royal burial. Queen *Yaa Asantewaa I* remains a much-loved figure in Asante history and the history of Ghana as a whole for her role in confronting the *colonialism of the British.* She understood the ramifications of *British colonial rule.* She is seen by Ghanaians today as a *queen mother* who exercised her political and social clout to help defend her kingdom. Queen *Yaa Asantewaa I* is immortalized in song as follows: "Koo koo hin koo eei Yaa Asantewa! Ɔbaa basia Ɔgyina apremo ano ee! W'ayɛ be egyae o Na W'abɔ mmɔden ("Yaa Asantewaa, The woman who fights before cannons You have accomplished great things You have done well") To highlight the importance of encouraging more female leaders in Ghanaian society, the *Yaa Asantewaa Girls' Secondary School* was established at Kumasi in 1960 with funds from the *Ghana Education Trust*. In the year 2000, a week-long *Centenary Celebration* was held in Ghana to acknowledge *Yaa Asantewaa's accomplishments*. As part of these celebrations, a *museum* was dedicated to her at Kwaso in the Edweso-Juaben District on 3 August 2000. Unfortunately, a fire on 23 July 2004 destroyed several historical items, including *her sandals and battle dress* (batakarikese). *Yaa Asantewaa Festival* is an annual festival celebrated by the *Chiefs and Peoples of Ejisu Traditional Area* in the Ashanti Region. It is usually celebrated in the month of *August.* Another important Yaa Asantewaa Festival was founded by the *Royal House of Queen Mother Saa Pogh Naa Yaa Asantewaa Ababio II*, to remember the 95th Year of the Home Calling of Queen *Yaa Asantewaa I*, and to honor Her unforgettable heroism and extraordinary bravery, that she exhibited during the War of the Golden Stool, aka the *Yaa Asantewaa War.* The 9 day Festival also paid respects to Queen Mother *Yaa Akyaa,* Mother of King Prempeh I and all of the other Kings and Chiefs who were exiled to Seychelles by the British in the early 1900s. These included *Abdullah Muhammad Shah II* the Sultan of Perak (hereditary State of Malaysia), King *Mwanga II* of Buganda (a Bantu Kingdom within Uganda) and King *Chwa II Kabalega* of Bunyoro (a Bantu Kingdom in Western Uganda). Other notable political exiles were Makarios III the first president of Cyprus and *Saad Zaghloul,* 17th Prime Minister of Egypt. The *Yaa Asantewaa Centre* in Maida Vale, west London, is an African-Caribbean arts and community centre. It took its name in 1986.

This video alone has made me a subscriber! I’m honored at the amount of work, thought and time you out in this. Keep ‘em coming my love!

I love when you breakdown African Queens! Please give us more 💜

I absolutely LOVED this video. Thank you so much for presenting a small drop of our collective African history in such a beautiful light. I truly hope we get to see more videos like this outside of the month of February! 💕

This was a really amazing video. More like this one. Fantastic job.

Yes! Thank you so much for this. I’m 43 and never heard of this in school or after. Wow.

Thank you for doing this video 💛

Yesss my girl never lets me down! Good job 👏🏽

I loved this video! It was incredibly informative and I’m thankful you took the time to research/make it.

Thanks, Lindsay.

Thank you so much for this video. I loved it

Wow thank you. I never thought you do a non European subject let alone a African one. Thank you!

Thank you! I'm excited to listen to her story.

Ah so happy this has been done 👍🏾

You never disappoint me with your content..thank you for making this video!!!

I love you Lindsay thank you for making this channel I love it so much it teaches me a lot about our history that we don’t even hear about the school I’d rather listen to you than listen to my own teachers

I love learning about African royals thank you

Yeah, Yaa! That was a beautifully illustrated and articulated story. I get friends to watch your amazing videos and they go from hating history, to total interest.💗

Lindsay, I love your videos!! Thank you for sharing so many unique and powerful stories. I have always loved history and your channel feeds that love so well.

This is very well-done. Thank you for this presentation about a phenomenal woman and her people.

As a Ghanaian I am Sooo grateful for this! Thank you!

Loved it! Very inspiring woman, Yaa Asantewaa!

Thank you Lindsay!

Thank you Lindsay, I’m from the Caribbean and appreciated this video immensely.

Lindsay, thank you. This video and the history of Yaa and the Asante people has been so beautifully done - like all your others ❤

This is amazing. I wished we learned more about these stories in school.