The
Ashanti (also spelled
Asante)
Empire (1701–1957) was an
Akan empire and kingdom in what is now often called the
Ashanti Region. The Ashanti Empire expanded from
Ashanti to include the
Brong-Ahafo,
Central region,
Eastern region,
Greater Accra region, and
Western region, of present-day
Ghana. The
Ashanti ethnic group inhabit the
exclave Ghana .
Ashanti people used military power due to effective strategy and early firearm adoption to create an empire that stretched from central Ghana to the present-day
Ivory Coast. Due to the empire's military prowess, wealth, architecture, sophisticated hierarchy and culture, the Ashanti empire was extensively studied and has more
historiographies by European, primarily British, authors than almost any other indigenous culture of
Sub-Saharan Africa.