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The text reproduced in this book is uniquely significant for anyone interested in Asante and in sub-Saharan Africa generally. It is a historical account of the Asante past from the 17th to the 20th centuries, produced in English (ca. 1937-1946) under the guidance and with the active participation of Asantehene Osei Agyeman Prempeh II (1931-1970), thirteenth occupant of the Golden Stool (sika dwa kofi) in succession to the first Asantehene Osei Tutu (d. 1717). The original typescript is a private document belonging to the royal matrilineage in Kumase, and the context of why and how it came into being is discussed fully in Part One below. It appears here in print with the gracious permission and encouragement of the fourteenth Asantehene Opoku Ware II (1970-1999), and of the present incumbent of the Golden Stool, the fifteenth Asantehene Osei Tutu II (succeeded 1999).
The text is long and replete with detail. It is an inestimably valuable addition to the plenitude of sources that have already made Asante the most intensively studied and written about of all historic sub-Saharan African polities. Like other historians, Asantehene Osei Agyeman Prempeh II and his collaborators assembled together and investigated all of the data – oral and written, in Twi and in English – that was available to them and that they identified as being relevant to their task. Like other historians too, the Asantehene and his team had a guiding purpose and a vision that informed the case they were trying to make in their writing. This is a (hi)story that is centred on the endurance and continuity of an Asante presided over by a long established royal dynasty in spite of the temporary – and indeed shortly to be finite – intrusion of formal British imperial overrule (1901-1957) at the time of its writing. The resulting narrative is of immense value in its account of Asante persons and of the historical events they lived through. Its deeper resonance might be said to lie in its authoritative and commanding portrait of the cultural norms and practices that for almost three hundred years – and still today – undergirded, articulated and advanced the ever evolving enterprise that was and is Asante.
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