Describe the social Organization of Asante Kingdom in the eighteenth century.
Answer:
- The Kingdom was composed of many communities who spoke the Akan language.
- The Asante were organized into clans.
- Marriage between members of the same clan was prohibited.
- Inheritance of property was matrilineal.
- The community was bound together by the Golden stool.
-There was an annual cultural festival (odwira) held at Kumasi to honour the
ancestors.
-The society was divided into social classes/stratification.
- The kings were regarded as semi-divine/religious leaders.
- The Asante were polytheists/worshipped many gods and goddess.
- The ancestors mediated between the gods and the people.
- The Asante had a supreme God called Nyame