Sika dwa kofi (Golden Stool), Asante people

[@emanuell1]

I'm a proud Asante and a dignified Ghanaian

[@miahconnell23]

I love Ghana. I saw Sekondi, Takoradi, & Kumasi. I would love to return. I taught a quasi-official summer school session at Old Hospital Junior High. The kids were great. I’d gone with American nurses & health-care workers, got to help transport a baby-having woman to the delivery area. I was so happy to help, but after moving the patient the nurses (both Ghanian and American) said to me: “thank you ‘miah. You have to leave now: you are a boy.” …Oh, yes true. I am a boy, and I’m just a school-teacher-not a doctor or a nurse. Also, this woman has never met me before. Yes. I leave. Absolutely.

[@nanayawpeter4445]

The stool is not wood covered with gold, but rather the whole stool is pure gold.

[@Deenique16]

Every article I've seen in the stool says its "a wooden stool inlaid with gold". I'm really trying to find where it says it is solid gold.

[@nanayawpeter4445]

@@Deenique16 my dear am in Ghana and am telling you what is here and you are taking about articles

[@nanayawpeter4445]

@@Deenique16 You can watch it here ( mponponsuo tv) and then you search for, WIREPE and you will see the it video and you will know whether am telling you the truth or not.

[@samprempeh5729]

NeickhaSuPRA Gold is nothing to Ashanti Kingdom for us to make wood and cover it with gold. Every ornament the king is wearing is pure Ashanti gold why then will we make wooden stool which represents the soul of Ashanti Kingdom.

[@eugeneamoanoo4060]

Am a Ghanaian,the stool is a pure Gold which was chanted from above.

[@akoseusiwaa8282]

It's not a wooden stool covered with gold, it's solid gold, please if you going to tell our story of our heritage please do your research well.

[@asanteboakye3354]

Don’t blame them, the Ashanti’s gave them a fake one so they’re describing what they have😂😂

[@acme_tnt8741]

It is gilded wood. More like inlaid with gold plate. Alstonia Boonei wood. In pictures you can see the golden rivets. I'm not discounting it's historical or cultural significance either. Physically if it were solid 24k gold at its dimensions it would distort under its own weight. Also its obvious that isn't cast. It's still an amazing object.

[@sunshinevg643]

@@asanteboakye3354they bever guve anthing they couldnt find it they took other athings

[@sunshinevg643]

@@acme_tnt8741dont say things you dont know it is pure gold no wood in it

[@Kya1942]

Hello all it pure gold. I have seen it firsthand. Fyi, i am an Asante Prince and in line to one of the 4 main Paramouncies.

[@brightboamah]

Am proud to be a Ghanaian and an being Ashanti is a plus

[@dianabrown2770]

Asante -Ashanti descendant here!

[@asonabakwabrafosoobuasi8260]

Proud to be an Ashanti. Asonaba Kwabrafoso Obuasi

[@herroyalagyei5402]

😍😍❤️

[@nanaethan9547]

Everywhere you go😀😀😀

[@Add_Account485]

Beautiful!.. I would too.

[@kofiabaa6816]

eihhh general 😂

[@royalmajorone8943]

He dey here too😀😀😃

[@Moyopheus]

Please can someone just tell the British, the French , the Portuguese and the rest of them to return to Africa the stolen art and artifacts to the countries they belong, Its shameful to be still in possession of what never belonged to them. Come now.

[@paulblankson1225]

Hmm Say it again

[@TOSINGER]

Yes!!!

[@lf1496]

You have to ask yourself what was wrong with the British that they NEEDED to take and sit on their sacred stool? Can we say MASSIVE INSECURITY 💯

[@82ambiga]

No. The Golden stool represents the essence of the Asante people. If the British had got their hands on it, it would have been the end of the kingdom, so it was an attempt to psychologically break the Asante people.

[@deannaclayton6009]

Both are correct, most people who want to psychologically break someone else are insecure. Not sure if you just want to disagree but this is the case. @@82ambiga

[@nanaetse1044]

The queen in the Ashanti land is never the kings wife. She could be the king’s mother, his sister, his aunt or his cousin. The king and queen are relatives from the same matrilineal line.

[@Mark-z5v8m]

U can’t be the queen if u are not from the royal family even if u married into the family

[@ahmedoseibonsu574]

Ashanti is the cultural land of Africa. we believe in our ancestral Heritage #YaaAsantewaa #Oseitutu etc

[@godfearingperson7917]

Ahmed Osei Bonsu my parents are Jamaican. our national hero is queen nanny of the maroons from the ashanti tribe and is buried over there. most Jamaicans are of Ashanti heritage hence our flag is the same colours of the ashanti tribe....but some to most Jamaicans are lost and worship white man

[@amankwaabeatriceoseioosei4667]

Our heritage won 4 us thru the toil of our Forefathers.

[@IdaArtia]

The stool is actually *PURE* gold. Asante gave the British a fake one that was made of wood and dipped in gold.

[@Add_Account485]

Wow! How beautiful! What a beautiful story...

[@vincentfrimpong4320]

The Golden Stool is made of 100% gold with no wood added please.

[@jeandelamourdejesus2115]

The stool offre akan ancestors eat blood. Il dit si pure gold that shall not ne possible

[@asanteboakye3354]

Don’t blame them, the Ashanti’s gave them a fake one so they’re describing what they have😂😂

[@amankwaabeatriceoseioosei4667]

We have forgotten all out heritage. We have forgotten our Motherland. We have truly forgotten where we come from & who we are. We always say our own is not good,but ours is first be4 others.

[@Deenique16]

Who is" we"?

[@blackboi8151]

I think "we" is the African diaspora. I truly believe if African hadn't sold their most precious resource (it's people ), Africa wouldn't have been subjugated by Rome (Europe ), advanced weapons are not. Africans hated each other and fought over trinkets, selling MILLIONS of Africans. They don't realize being Yoruba, Ashante, Shone or any other tribe, you black and enter the Western world you're considered a knagga. Slavery hurt the black African world wide view in a negative way and has done damage that has lasted hundreds of years. The sad thing is set Africans would still sell each other at rates as high as the peak of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. It's reported slavery thrives in some parts of Africa. I wish Africa would unite get it together. Millions of Africans are at the bottom of the Atlantic.

[@kwekuokokroko8603]

the golden stool is not wood covered in gold. it is solid pure gold.

[@otibiohjoseph2457]

the queen is never the wife of the occupant of the golden stool. in tradition..the queen is either the female matrilineal cousin of the asantehene,his biological sister, his mother, niece or maternal grandmother. at the end of the day...the queen must be a maternal relative to the king

[@mauricemensahdelali4883]

The stool was made by God through a high priest called okomfo Anokye.

[@rebeccabernasco]

THANK U SO MUCH,VERY WELL NARRATED😊😊😊

[@victorowusukyem3725]

Please lady check your facts,it’s not a wooden stool covered with gold but pure GOLD.

[@globallightrestorationpray6602]

It's not a wooden golden stool. Point of correction. But a pure gold from the sky.. let say heaven.

[@tonymarfo6879]

That's the great Ashanti for you

[@nanaasamoah7778]

All this gold are there and am suffering,when the British came to Ghana,all they care was the gold and not the people,and after their loot,they left ghana in a pit. This british...

[@wisdomsage9569]

Who told you that. The British arrived to a self sustained system. There was no suffering since western idea of “rich”. To the point the British challenged the Asante kingdom to war of which of course the British lost. However won the other two wars that followed

[@spicymoims5801]

thats one cute stool :o

[@kingofafrika7660]

Interesting. Have you wondered, when Osei Tutu was unifying the Ashanti the Fante was already seen as a Nation and confederation. Osei Tutu, desired power. The Fanti ranges from central to western,. The Fanti were also the power house of Ghana. Accepting the Ga, Ewe and other ethnicity now modern day Ghana.Tho aiding their Allies to conquer the Ashanti, They were usurpered after the bond of 1844. The gate way to Africa , Gold coast was stated to the Fante land (Gold coast). Gold is popular in Ghana .. there js also Tarkwa. The Ashanti loved war and that deprived peace and wealth

[@verlyusis9510]

The fantes were traitors to the Akan tribe back then.... They were part of the tribes that sold slaves

[@Mark-z5v8m]

@@verlyusis9510Both the Fantis n the Asantes sold their prisoners of war after they fought each other on numerous occasions. The fantes sought extra protection from the whites cuzz the Asantes constantly brought war to their doorsteps trying to conquer n take them as subjects.If it was not the desire of the Asantes to be the overlords of all Akans, both of them could’ve joined forces to kick out the foreigners.

[@evanevans4263]

Sika Dwa Kofi. Okomfo Anokye adawuroma!

[@isaac_ibj]

The Golden Stool was commanded from the "Heavens" by a Priest whose name was Konfo Anokye. He's the center of the miracle of the appearance of the Golden Stool.

[@BernardAsare-bh9gp]

Komfo Anokye's real name is Kwame Frimpong

[@Sasha0927]

Another day or another awesome Smarthistory playlist to dazzle and enlighten me. 😌❤ "A man's stool or a woman's stool can take on the essence of that person." That's a new idea for me. Of all the blessed and divine objects, a stool is certainly among the most interesting.. A stool with its own seat. Now I've seen everything. 😅 I love the title "Ashantehene" - my title must be just as cool, lol. I also love the wisdom of the ram. I actually learned a related French phrase: "Reculer pour mieux sauter." PS: I discovered my package just shy of midnight last night and am holding it hostage until my nightmarish overnight shifts on Thursday and Friday. It'll give me something to be excited about and be my guaranteed mood boost, lol.

[@smarthistory-art-history]

Yay! We hope you like it.

[@Sasha0927]

@@smarthistory-art-history I auto-love it. 🥰 Doing my best to shake the idea that it's a framed, autograph picture of Dan, but I'm too sentimental to care what it is! I will pop. Thank you again. ❤️

[@smarthistory-art-history]

lol

[@Sasha0927]

@@smarthistory-art-history A girl can dream 🥰🤭

[@uadjet]

Why wouldn't it be important to them??!! This was the only African nation that defeated the British. And also never got the stool that they so coveted

[@Prinx6]

You got that right. Am proud one

[@janeokonkwo2164]

The stool is full gold

[@maameyaaserwah5264]

Sumsum is not an ora it is a spirit. Nice video but some of the informations are not right.

[@jamalalkhalid]

SUNSUM IS SPIRIT..... NOT ORA OR ENERGY

[@melanatedwoman3760]

Jamal al Khalid ...B4, she said aura, I said *Spirit*

[@paulblankson1225]

@@melanatedwoman3760 please I’ve listened to it more than once And she didn’t say spirit The meaning of sunsum is spirit not aura or energy as she said 😀 Thanks

[@dc7981]

Here because of the video game Shin Megami Tensei 5 which has a side quest where you have to make sure the Golden Stool doesn't fall into the wrong hands but i didn't expect this

[@матыга]

Молодци, вы имеете полное право возыметь

[@augustineyeboah8751]

Proud to be asante nii can't survive you from your poor situations let them use it to help the youth instead of putting it in room while people's are suffering in kumasi for no reason(the real espanyol Spain)

[@erykos7779]

Go and find a job and stop fooling

[@allandavidmacfadyen6639]

Thank You very much.

[@kizzakasule4929]

In my Buganda culture or tradition it's a taboo for King to look at the Sun and was the reason why the Baganda used umbrella to protect him

[@rebeccabernasco]

LISTEN GOOD, NANA DORMAAHENE😂😂😂

[@asamoahcharlotte3786]

Hmmm great

[@patrickappiahkubi9859]

What is golden stool

[@asiedu2869]

@@patrickappiahkubi9859 let a foreigner ask you this question..

[@atsagouluther9958]

Why do u People thing you can tell our story without proper knowlage

[@smarthistory-art-history]

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