The Ashanti combined strength in war — conquering lands from what is now Ivory Coast in the west to Togo in the east and defeating British colonizers several times — with skill in art ...

The Ashanti Empire ruled over West Africa in what is Ghana today for 200 years. And while Ashanti herself is proud of her name, she wanted to show young people everywhere that having a unique name ...

“Tutu, who lived from 1660 to 1712 or 1717, unified several small Asante kingdoms to create the Asante empire. He is credited ... of the slave trade but that “art historians say that the ...

Subscribe now! In an interview with E! News, the singer, whose mother named her after the Ashanti Empire in Ghana, discussed how it wasn’t always easy to have an unconventional moniker at school.