Photo credits: theafricanhistory.com On October 17, 1840, Yaa Asantewaa was born in Besease, Ghana. At the age of 81, she died on October 17, 1921, in Seychelles. Asantewaa was one of a virtuous sodbuster and triumphant woman. She was also a rulemaking individual, civil liberation militant, the sovereign, and the chieftain who had wisdom. Asantewaa […]

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