Queen-Mother (Ejisuhemaa) of Ejisu; leader of the 1900-1901 War of the Golden Stool, the final and largest Anglo-Asante War. Born c. 1840 CE at Besease in the Ejisu region; member of the royal Asona clan-line. The Queen-Mother (ohemaa) position in Akan dual-sovereignty kingship is structurally co-sovereign with the male chief, making Yaa Asantewaa the highest-ranking female political authority in Ejisu and a senior figure in the broader Asanteman. After the British-led colonial demand in 1900 that the Sika Dwa Kofi (Golden Stool) be brought out so that British Governor Sir Frederick Hodgson could sit on it — a demand constituting an existential threat to Asante sovereignty per the constitutional sacredness of the Sika Dwa Kofi (which was never to touch the ground or be sat upon) — Yaa Asantewaa rallied the Asante chiefs at the Ejisu council with the famous speech: "If you, the men of Asante, will not go forward, then we, the women, will. We will fight the white men until the last of us falls in the battlefield." Led the resulting six-month war which produced significant British casualties before the Asante defeat in September 1901. Captured and exiled to Seychelles alongside Asantehene Prempeh I; died in Seychelles in 1921 CE without returning to Ghana. The foremost Asante female political-cultural-historical figure in modern Ghanaian national memory; the Yaa Asantewaa Museum at Ejisu commemorates her legacy. parentIds left empty per registry conventions for matrilineal-succession-context figures.