The best title for what you are looking for in this area may be this one:
The Asante Kingdom by Carol Thompson. Franklin Watts, c1998.
Though it is really a catalog for a museum exhibit, as I've learned over the years, in these areas, often the catalogs are the best sources of information on history and culture too, the text written by the best current scholars, but not in academic jargon, because museums need the text accessible enough that their visitors will buy them.
It surveys the history and culture of the Asante Kingdom in West Africa, from its founding in the late seventeenth century to its clashes with the British and eventual decline in the nineteenth century.
Off Topic - Ashanti Kingdom
The Asante Kingdom by Carol Thompson. Franklin Watts, c1998.
Though it is really a catalog for a museum exhibit, as I've learned over the years, in these areas, often the catalogs are the best sources of information on history and culture too, the text written by the best current scholars, but not in academic jargon, because museums need the text accessible enough that their visitors will buy them.
It surveys the history and culture of the Asante Kingdom in West Africa, from its founding in the late seventeenth century to its clashes with the British and eventual decline in the nineteenth century.
Love, C.