The Asante Empire, which was made up of most of present-day Ghana, was a powerful kingdom located in West Africa. The Asante Empire began in 1701 when military leader Osei Tutu defeated ...

But there's a debate about where it originated: the Bonwire community or the Adanwomase community in the Ashanti Region. The Conversation Africa spoke to African art and culture researcher Dickson ...

Tuesday saw the repatriation of thirty-two royal items that had been taken from the Ashanti Empire in West Africa during the 19th century by the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) and the British ...