Heads of Asanteman

Name - Asanteman (Asante)

Continent - Africa

Capital - Kumasi

Head of state - Asantehene Kwasi Boachi III

Head of government - Gyaasehene --------

Legislature - Asantemanhyiamu (upper), Kwasafohyiamu (lower)

President of the Asantemanhyiamu -

President of the Kwasafohyiamu -

Judiciary - Kokoto

President of the Kokoto -

Form of government - Akom federal elective monarchy under a semi-democratic ministerial confidential constitution

Form of law -

Demonym - Asante

Area - 246,684 km^2

Largest cities

-Kumasi

-Elmina

-Berekum

Time zone - TMP+00:00

Currency - Asante mperedwan

Language - Asante

Population - 54,219,000

Religion - Akom (official); Islam, Christianity (minority)

Density - 219.79 /km^2

National festival -

Anthem -

Motto -

-this syllabary and with characters combined to create clusters

-a great man credited as having created it

-center of all authority

-emperor of the Asante state

-still has a great deal of authority

-top tier of legislature

-consists of Amanhene from across empire

-as well as municipal chiefs (formerly just Kumasi but expanded)

-as well as several asantehene appointees

-also has power to stool and destool monarchs

-but due to existence of appointees takes three fifths majority to destool

-bottom tier of legislature

-elected by the people of the nation

-originally from village headmen but later the people

-has power to investigate all happenings of government

-including the federal governments

-laws passed by Kwasafohyiamu, Asantemanhyiamu, and Asantehene together have supreme authority

-just under Seventy-Seven Laws treatises

-successfully takes Fante states

-British Isles successfully takes Accra and centralizes it into a native confederation under its protection

-turning it into its main port in the area

-repeated attacks by Asante on it initially succeed but then fail

-Dutch successfully build road from Elmina to Kumasi

-but weakness means this doesn't do a whole lot more except build up plantations

-and Asante agree to allow Dutch to recruit in return for guns which help it expand a lot

-sees expansion in other directions

-with total end of trans-Atlantic slave trade after France's Wars > Franco-Portuguese War (1871-2) it's forced to transition economy

-towards cash crops

-a new emphasis towards coffee gained from Dutch Kumasi in particular

-also there's the formation of new academies

-on models of universities popping up in United States of Fredonia except without extreme Christianity

-in order to maintain western support amends human sacrifice

-instead it is prisoners who are subjected to such treatment in manner similar to Dahomey's reforms of system, so it can be portrayed as an elaborate form of execution

-with British-Dutch alliance following French Wars > Fourth French War (1880-4) circumstances that allowed it to play British and Dutch against one another diminish

-result in war breaking out in 1888 after British officers go wild

-war ends up surprisingly badly for British and Dutch but they do barge in

-when French Wars > Fifth French War (1892-5) hits, British government decides it's time for peace

-Asante decide it's time for reform afterwards

-more efforts on modernization and new emphasis on railroad construction

-with funding from Italy with which it enters into a commerce agreement

-also it decides it needs to conquer land to remain strong and so heads to conquer towards Ivory coast to success

-period of centralization in early twentieth century

-to disgruntlement of feudatories who get crushed thanks to railroads

-additionally Britain is pretty drained thanks to European war so it can't conquer as hard