Anglo-Ashanti WarsGhana · 1823-1900“Come to Kumasi, where gold, trade and sovereignty pulled Britain and Asante into war again and again.”For much of the nineteenth century, the Asante Empire and Britain struggled over the Gold Coast. The argument was not only about trade routes or forts; it was about who had the right to command the forest roads and the peoples between coast and interior.The lesson the elders kept: Sovereignty can live in roads, markets, capitals and sacred symbols. Asante teaches that conquest is never only military when the people know what must not be surrendered.