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Yaa Asantewaa

1840 - 1921

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Yaa Asantewaa I (c. 1840 – 17 October 1921) was the Queen Mother of Ejisu in the Ashanti Empire, now part of modern-day Ghana. She was appointed by her brother Nana Akwasi Afrane Okese, the Edwesuhene, or ruler, of Edwesu. In 1900, she led the Ashanti war also known as the War of the Golden Stool, or the Yaa Asantewaa War of Independence, against the British Empire. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yaa Asantewaa is the 12,689th most popular politician (up from 14,010th in 2019). (up from 3,741st in 2019)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Yaa Asantewaa ranks 12,689 out of 19,576. Before her are Abe Masahiro, Quintus Servilius Caepio, Pieter van Vollenhoven, Johan Wilhelm Rangell, Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino, and Carlos Vila Nova. After her are Senseneb, Teuvo Aura, Alexander Protopopov, Alaksandu, Enrique Peñaranda, and Nicaea of Macedon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1840, Yaa Asantewaa ranks 65. Before her are Adolf Bernhard Meyer, Aisha Taymur, Ferdinand Sarrien, Émile Duclaux, Victorino de la Plaza, and Célestine Galli-Marié. After her are Kazimierz Alchimowicz, Hermann Goetz, Marko Kropyvnytskyi, Viktor Knorre, André Gill, and William Henry Conley. Among people deceased in 1921, Yaa Asantewaa ranks 85. Before her are William Speirs Bruce, E. W. Hornung, Eduardo Dato, Gabriela Zapolska, Alfred Grandidier, and Colin Archer. After her are Sándor Wekerle, Mirza Kuchik Khan, Gyula Breyer, James H. Johnson, Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, and Isidor Kaufmann.

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