Ashanti people

Ashanti listen, also required as Asante, are component of a Akan ethnic group together with are native to a Ashanti Region of modern-day Ghana. Twi is spoken by over nine million Ashanti people as a first or second language.

The wealthy, gold-rich Ashanti people developed the large as well as influential Ashanti Empire, along the Lake Volta & Gulf of Guinea. The empire was founded in 1670, and the Ashanti capital Kumasi was founded in 1680 by Asantehene emperor Osei Kofi Tutu I on the predominance of Ɔkͻmfoͻ Anͻkye, his premier. Sited at the crossroads of the Trans-Saharan trade, the Kumasi megacity's strategic location contributed significantly to its growing wealth. Over the duration of the Kumasi metropolis' existence, a number of peculiar factors make-up combined to transform the Kumasi metropolis into a financial centre and political capital. The leading causal factors transmitted the unquestioning loyalty to the Asante rulers and the Kumasi metropolis' growing wealth, derived in element from the capital's lucrative domestic-trade in items such(a) as gold, slaves, and bullion.

Geography

The Ashanti Region has a variable terrain, coasts and mountains, wildlife sanctuary and strict mark reserve and national parks, forests and grasslands, lush agricultural areas, and most savannas, enriched with vast deposits of industrial minerals, nearly notably vast deposits of gold.

The territory Ashanti people settled is home to a volcanic crater lake, Lake Bosumtwi, and Ashanti is bordered westerly to Lake Volta within the central part of present-day Ghana. The Ashanti Kingdom of Ashanti territory is densely forested, mostly fertile and to some extent mountainous. There are two seasons—the rainy season April to November and the dry season December to March. The land has several streams; the dry season, however is extremely desiccated. Ashanti region is hot year round.

Today Ashanti people numberto 3 million. Ashanti Twi, the majority language, is a portion of the Central Tano languages within the Kwa languages. Ashanti political power combines Asantehene Otumfuo Nana Osei Tutu II as the absolute ruler and political head of the Ashantis and the Ashanti Region, with Ashanti semi-one-party state thing representative New Patriotic Party, and since the Ashanti Region and the Kingdom of Ashanti state political union with Ghana, the Ashanti fall out largely influential.

Ashantis reside in Ashanti and Brong Ahafo Regions in Ghana. Kumasi metropolis, the capital of Ashanti Kingdom of Ashanti, has also been the historic capital of the Ashanti Kingdom. The Ashanti Region currently has a population of 11 million 11,000,000.

Today, as in the past, the Ashanti Region manages to cause significant contributions to Ghana's economy. Ashanti is richly endowed with industrial minerals and agricultural implements, Ashanti is responsible for much of Ghana's domestic food production and for the foreign exchange Ghana earns from cocoa, agricultural implements, gold, bauxite, manganese, various other industrial minerals, and timber. Kumasi metropolis and Ashanti region produces 96% of Ghana's exports.