The life of King TuTu and the Asante kingdom may be interesting to you but then again it may not be. It all depends on what you’re interested in. Osei Tutu was the king of the Asante kingdom, which was a pre-colonial West African state that emerged in the 17th century. Today it is called Ghana. Asante Kingdom wasn’t very good at first until King Tutu came along and made some trades for weapons and other things to help make the Asante kingdom great. Osei TuTu’s main objectives for building the kingdom and making it better was to overthrow the Denkyira.
In the early days Osei TuTu went through military training to make him basically a “war machine” the people of Asante kingdom also went through this training to become stronger so they can protect the kingdom as well as the soldiers and TuTu. He had expanded the kingdom also by doing wars, this was brought on after avenging the death of his uncle at the hands of Dormaa and bringing some recalcitrant states in line. After all of this when he became king Osei had a chief priest named Komfo Anokye, he and Komfo established a capital at Kumasi and established the golden stool as the symbol of the empire the reason for this was the embodiment of the …show more content…
Osei had some capacities as king and some was he never needed to maintain a large standing army to control his people, he also represented not just the state but the society too so if he was to get attacked than the person who attacked him would be attacking the society also. To protect the kingdom he used the square formation where the soldiers would stand at each corner of the kingdom to watch out for the kingdom. TuTu was not only an Asantehene he was also a Kumasihene. He had a son named Emmanuel osei-tutu and Emmanuel had a daughter named Nanna osei-tutu and she had two sons Jeremiah osei-tutu and Anthony mejia (who knew?). The Odwira Festival, disputes between the chiefs were
In the early days Osei TuTu went through military training to make him basically a “war machine” the people of Asante kingdom also went through this training to become stronger so they can protect the kingdom as well as the soldiers and TuTu. He had expanded the kingdom also by doing wars, this was brought on after avenging the death of his uncle at the hands of Dormaa and bringing some recalcitrant states in line. After all of this when he became king Osei had a chief priest named Komfo Anokye, he and Komfo established a capital at Kumasi and established the golden stool as the symbol of the empire the reason for this was the embodiment of the …show more content…
Osei had some capacities as king and some was he never needed to maintain a large standing army to control his people, he also represented not just the state but the society too so if he was to get attacked than the person who attacked him would be attacking the society also. To protect the kingdom he used the square formation where the soldiers would stand at each corner of the kingdom to watch out for the kingdom. TuTu was not only an Asantehene he was also a Kumasihene. He had a son named Emmanuel osei-tutu and Emmanuel had a daughter named Nanna osei-tutu and she had two sons Jeremiah osei-tutu and Anthony mejia (who knew?). The Odwira Festival, disputes between the chiefs were