In 1900, a British colonial official demanded an African tribe - the Ashanti - give him a holy relic as a symbol of their capitulation to the English Crown. They refused - and instead took up arms against the British. The end result was thousands dead. This is the story of the War of the Golden Stool.

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Sources

https://adf-magazine.com/2022/08/nana-yaa-asantewaa-and-the-war-of-the-golden-stool/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Golden_Stool

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Stool

Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Typical_fight_in_the_forest,_Anglo-Ashanti_War_of_1900_(Battles_of_the_nineteenth_century,_1901).jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Ashanti.svg

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