Yaa Asantewaa Festival

Yaa Asantewaa Festival is an annual festival celebrated by the chiefs and peoples of Ejisu Traditional Area in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. It is usually celebrated in the month of August.[1][2][3][4]

Celebrations

There is durbar of chiefs which is presided by paramount chief of Ejisu.[1]

Significance

The chiefs and the inhabitants of Ejisu pay homage to Yaa Asantewaa who was known as an Ashanti war heroine who led in a battle against the British in 1901.[5][6][7] The festival also commemorate her bravery for resisting the British from capturing the Golden Stool of the Ashantis which led to an uprising in the late 1690s.[1]

The Yaa Asantewaa Festival was founded by the Royal House of Queen mother Saa Pogh Naa to remember and honor the Ashanti queen mother of Nana Prempeh, Nana Prempeh and other chiefs who were exiled to Seychelles by the British in the early 1900s.[8]

References
  1. "Festival | The Embassy of the Republic of Ghana, Berlin, Germany". Retrieved 2020-08-16.
  2. "Yaa Asantewaa festival launched in Kumasi". Yaa Asantewaah Museum. Retrieved 2020-08-16.
  3. "Yaa Asantewaa Festival of Arts and Culture". Retrieved 2020-08-16.
  4. "Yaa Asantewaa Festival – FIANDAD GHANA LIMITED". Retrieved 2020-08-16.
  5. "Festivals Ghana - Easy Track Ghana". www.easytrackghana.com. Retrieved 2020-08-16.
  6. ""Ghana: Yaa Asantewaa Festival in August; from 1-6 August, the People of Asante in Ghana Will Be Joined by the Rest of the World at a Festival in Kumasi to Commemorate the Heroic Deeds of Yaa Asantewaa, the Warrior Queen Who, in 1900, Took on the Might of the British Empire and Nearly Defeated It. George Ferguson Laing Reports" by Laing, George Ferguson - New African, Issue 452, June 2006 | Online Research Library: Questia". www.questia.com. Retrieved 2020-08-16.
  7. "Yaa Asantewaa Festival Proposed". DailyGuide Network. 2019-04-09. Retrieved 2020-08-16.
  8. "Festival of Saint Yaa Asantewaa & The Exiled Kings | Seychelles". seychellesfestivalofsaintyaa.com. Retrieved 2020-08-16.
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