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From the late seventeenth century, the Asante state united Akan polities around Kumasi and built a powerful system of government, trade, military organisation and court culture.
The Golden Stool, or Sika Dwa Kofi, is the supreme symbol of Asante unity and sovereignty; tradition holds that it embodies the collective spirit of the Asante nation.