Daughters of the Gold Coast Yaa Asantewaa of Ashanti and Nanny of the Maroons: two Akan women, one ocean apart: - and why Nanny was most likely Fante, not Ashanti.

Two women. One Tribe. A bond that survived the Atlantic.In 1900 Gold Coast, now Ghana, Yaa Asantewaa rallied the armies of Asante and led the last great war against British colonial rule in West Africa. A century and a half earlier, Nanny of the Maroons carved a free Black nation into the mountains of Jamaica, defying the same empire from the other side of the ocean. History has always called them...