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  Yaa Asantewa was a courageous queen mother of the Ashanti empire which is in present day Ghana. The story of Yaa Asantewa is intricately tied to the golden stool. The Golden stool was an emblem of the cultural system and power of the Ashanti Kingdom, it is believed to harbor all the souls of the Ashanti people. As the queen mother, her major role was safeguarding the stool.     In the late 1800s, the Ashanti people began to rebel against the British expansion (Gold Coast Colony) into their territory. This led to frequent clashes between the British soldiers and Ashanti warriors, it continued until 1863, when the Ashanti warriors invaded some of the coastal villages that were supporting the British.     In response, the governor Frederick Mitchell Hudgson, in 1896, captured and exiled the King of the Kingdom (Asantehene Agyeman Prempeh 1), his mother, his father, his brother, some chiefs and Kofi Tene, who happened to be Yaa Asantewa 's Grandson to Sierra Leone and later Seychelle