Ashantee War Captain
The Ashanti (or Asante) Empire (or Confederacy),
also Asanteman (1701–1896) was a West Africa state of the
Ashanti people, the Akan people of the Ashanti Region, now in
Ghana. The Ashanti or Asante are a major ethnic group in Ghana, a
powerful, militaristic and highly disciplined people of West
Africa. Their military power, which came from effective strategy
and an early adoption of European rifles, created an empire that
stretched from central Ghana to present day Togo and Côte d'Ivoire,
bordered by the Dagomba kingdom to the north and Dahomey to the
east. Due to the empire's military prowess, sophisticated
hierarchy, social stratification and culture the Ashanti empire had
one of the largest historiographies of any indigenous sub-Saharan
African political entity. Today the Ashanti monarchy continues as a
constitutionally protected, sub-national traditional state in the
Republic of Ghana.