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Forests of goldBook 1993 • Wilks, Ivor
Akan • Africa > Western Africa
This is a detailed study of the cultural and political history of the Twi (Asanti, Ashanti) people of west Africa from approximately the fifteenth to the late twentieth centuries (1980s). Much of the earlier material deals with the Akan kingdom of th...On mentally mapping Greater Asantearticle 1992 • Wilks, Ivor
Akan • Africa > Western Africa
What was the extent of Asante authority in the18th and 19th centuries? The Asante had no maps of their empire, the ‘Greater Asante.’ Rather they had a mental map of it as a circle centered on the capital Kumasi and its diameter reckoned in the time i...