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Yaa Asantewaa was Gyaasehemaa of Besease, not Ejisu Queenmother – Historian

• Yaa Asantewaa was not a Queenmother but once acted as Omanhene of Ejisu • She joined the then Asantehene’s War Council meeting because Ejisu did not have an Omanhene • The current narrative about her is a creation of white historians  Professor Baffuor Agyemang Duah, a historian and former senior …

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