Asante Confederacy Consolidates

June 15, 1700

In the forests of present-day Ghana, Osei Tutu and the priest Okomfo Anokye bound the Akan clans beneath the Golden Stool, which they claimed had descended from the sky. Gold, kola, and slaves flowed through Kumasi. A new African power had taken shape in firelight and ritual. Within a generation, the Asante would dominate trade across the entire Gold Coast hinterland.