Real image of Yaa Asantewaa pops up

 


The first image in the photo grid below and the featured image of this article is the real image of Yaa Asantewaa, the second one is the image of an American theatre student that was made to dress and act like Yaa Asantewaa in USA.


It would seem we have been misled all this while right from primary school days till now. If Africans don't write their own history, the white man will write our history for us. This is a very classic example of that assertions. In all primary books to university history books, the image on the right is what has been used to represent Yaa Asantewaa.

Yaa Asantewaa was the queen mother of Ejusu whose name was enshrined in history for been able to lead the people of Ejusu and Ashanti Kingdom for that matter to fight against the British who wanted to takeover the Ashanti Kingdom in 1901. For being a woman who led men her heroic feat could not go unrecognized that is why the name and image of Yaa Asantewaa is highly revered not only in Ghana but globally.

Even in our various musuems, it is the right image that is used but that is not the real image of Yaa Asantewaa. Many institutions have been named after her in her memory and many women see her as a role model.

Kindly read below the account of historian Herman W Von Jesse :

The Great Warrior Queen, Yaa Asantewaa:

Historian,  Herman W. Von Hesse has stated that the trending picture of the woman holding a gun is indeed NOT Yaa Asantweaa. Attached are two pictures of her. 

The first where she was bare chested is believed to have been taken after she was captured by the British in the early 1900s .

For those wondering why as a Queen Mother she was bare chested, historian Herman W. Von Hesse writes:

‘Royal and non-Royal women walking bare breasted was completely normal in precolonial and early colonial Ghana. Nothing scandalous about that. It’s rather missionaries and coastal elites who taught us that being bare breasted was not a sign of modesty. Reason why kaba srotu was invented on the coast as an imitation of the European blouse.’


The second picture is from The Basel Mission Archives and according to Yaw Asante, she is the one wearing white in the front. The man in the middle is Asantehene Prempeh I and on his left is his mother Asantehemaa and other big chiefs of Asanteman. The picture was taken in Seychelles island in the early 1920’s. 

(Kindly note, the education and clarification is truly important as we get to know more about the legacy of Queen, Yaa Asantweaa.)

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