Asante (Ashanti ... the late 19th century by a state known as Asante. Asante was the largest and most powerful of a series of states formed in the forest region of southern Ghana by people known as ...

The 15th century also saw the rise of the Songhai ... The early 18th century saw the rise of the Asante Empire, who established a new societal structure made up of leaders from the tribal regions.

In the 15th and 16th centuries this gold attracted other traders, from the great Songhay empire (in today's Republic of Mali), from ... The V&A holds another group of Asante items which it acquired ...