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What about the kingdom of Oyo, 1200-1800, and the mighty Ashantis, 1695-1901?

From Time Magazine Archive

To this day, the Ashantis swear allegiance first to the Asantehene and second to the Republic of Ghana.

From Time Magazine Archive

Whenever he arrived in a city�in Accra, Kano, Ibadan, Kumasi, Lagos and Enugu�huge crowds turned out to cheer him, including the "all-powerful" King of the Ashantis, King Nana Sir Osei Agyeman Prempeh II.

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The Ashantis were famed as warriors and hunters.

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During this period he had been much employed in repelling the marauding incursions of the Ashantis.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various