Yaa Asantewaa [Worrior]
A all-new conversation concerning Yaa Asantewaa, the renowned Ashanti warrior queen, and her true identity was started on Twitter by Ghanaweb.
This came after a discussion started over a photo released by the media outlet asking Ghanaians to identify the woman.
Since the majority of Ghanaians had seen an iconic image of Yaa Asantewaa, many did not realize that it did not correctly depict her.
Yaa Asantewaa is the person written by @abenamagis. I detest the fact that for years, Ghanaians propagated a false narrative. For far too long, Ohemaa Yaa Asantewaa has been represented by one of my students in my social studies textbooks.
Not Yaa Asantewaa, please, a foreign student who traveled to Ghana for academic research received outfits like this, according to @ellyszn.
That's a white woman who pretended to be Yaa Asantewaa while doing research on her, as @Mrbelgium1 wrote. This is not the image of the real Yaa Asantewaa.
What is the real facts about Yaa Asantewaa?
In a post from the @Ashanti Kingdom that contains a link to the verified Twitter account @MacJordaN, there are two images displayed: one of an elderly woman and the other of the more well-known Yaa Asantewa.
The words "Ohemaa Yaa Asantewaa... Mother of Ejisu who led the Ashanti warriors against the... in 1900" is written beneath the new image, nevertheless.
The original tweet from @Ashanti Kingdom stated, "An American Girl Theatre Arts Student poses as Yaa Asantewaa in a bulletproof war jacket and boots gripping a gun and this photograph has gone all over the world with some people claiming that the picture is actual Yaa Asantewaa."
If this is any indicator, there are surely still a lot of paradoxes in our collective histories, and there is a long list.
Requests for the recall of a textbook that was being marketed in the Ghanaian market as well as threats from some Ewe organizations to burn the books were made as soon as it was learned that the book had various historical distortions
