The Fall of the Asante Empire: The Hundred-Year War for Africa's Gold Coast by Robert B. Edgerton

The Fall of the Asante Empire: The Hundred-Year War for Africa's Gold Coast

Robert B. Edgerton

293 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction history dark informative slow-paced
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In 1817, the first British envoy to meet the king of the Asante of West Africa was dazzled by his reception. A group of 5,000 Asante soldiers, many wearing immense caps topped with three foot eagle feathers and gold ram's horns, engulfed him with ...

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