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Asante chief An Asante chief wearing silk cloth and gold jewelry.

Asante

people
Also known as: Ashanti
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Asante, people of south-central Ghana and adjacent areas of Togo and Côte d’Ivoire. Most of the Asante live in a region centred on the city of Kumasi, which was the capital of the former independent Asante state. They speak a Twi language of the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo language family and are a subgroup of the Akan peoples. Although some Asante now live and work in urban centres, they remain primarily associated with village...

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