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"The struggle for freedom demands sacrifice. Are you willing to sacrifice for the liberation of our people?”"
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Yaa Asantewaa I was the Queen Mother of Ejisu in the Ashanti Empire, now part of modern-day Ghana. She was appointed by her brother Nana Akwasi Afrane Okese, the Edwesuhene, or ruler, of Edwesu. In 1900, she led the Ashanti war also known as the War of the Golden Stool, or the Yaa Asantewaa War of Independence, against the British Empire.
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"We, the women, will. I shall call upon my fellow women. We will fight the white men. We will fight till the last of us falls in the battlefields."
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"If you, the men, will not go forward, then we will. We, the women, will. I shall call upon my fellow women."
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