Yaa Asantewaa Museum At Ejisu Rotting Away

The museum named after the valiant Ashanti queen mother Yaa Asantewaa has been left to rot away. The facility which is located at Ejisu where she was the queen mother was last refurbished in the year 2000 by the then-First Lady of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, and has been left unattended since a fire gutted the facility in 2004.

It is reported that the museum is on the radar of the Akufo-Addo administration which prioritizes the redevelopment of all tourist sites and facilities in the country with the upgrade of the Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum as initial proof.

The Curator of the Yaa Asantewaa museum, Frank Badu Sampene says, any rehabilitation of the place should use traditional material to depict the items associated with the time of existence of the Ashanti and Ejisu heroine.

The Rawlingses took interest in the Yaa Asantewaa museum because one of their daughters is named after the powerful Ashanti queen mother who has come to symbolize gender balance and female heroism.

Yaa Asantewaa was born October 17, 1840, and died October 17, 1921. In 1900, she led the Ashantis to war against the British in what became known as the War of Independence.