The Asante World provides fresh perspectives on the Asante, the largest Akan group in Southern Ghana, and what new scholars are thinking and writing about the "world the Asante made."

Edmund Abaka is Associate Professor of History and International Studies, University of Miami. His publications include Kola is God's Gift: Agricultural Production, Export Initiatives & the Kola Industry of Asante & the Gold Coast (2005); House of Slaves and "Door of No Return": Gold Coast/Ghana Slave Forts, Castles and Dungeons and the Atlantic Slave Trade (2012).

Kwame Osei Kwarteng is a Professor of History, former Head of the Department of History, and currently Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Cape Coast, Ghana. He is the author of A History of Ahafo 1719-1958: Ahafo from dependence to independence (2011) and A History of the Elephant in Ghana in the Twentieth Century (2011).

1. Introduction Part 1 2. The Ahafo-Asante Relations, 1712-1935 3. The Asante Factor in the Political Re-Orientation of Northern Ghana: A Historical Evaluation of the Bassari-Dagomba Relations, 1745-1876 4. Asante Imperium Expansion: Imperial Outlook and Construction of Empire 5. Contending Empires: Asante and Britain From the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Centuries Part 2 6. Historical Reconstruction of an Asante Ancillary State: Origin, Migration and Settlement of Sekyere Kwamang 7. Dupuis' Discourse on Asante in the 19th Century: An Evaluation of the Islamic Themes in the Journal of Residence in Ashantee (1824) 8. Why Islam Did Not Make a Significant Impact on Asante During the 18th and 19th Centuries Part 3 9. Red Gold: Kola Nuts, the Kola Nut Trade and the Political Economy of AsanteEdmund Abaka 10. An Indigenous Innovative Touch: Origin and Significance of the Kente Cloth in Asante Culture 11. Adinkra Symbols and Proverbs as Tools for Elucidating Indigenous Asante Political Thought 12. The Tropology of Akan Drum Language: Sounds and Meanings From the Mamponghene's Drum Appellation Part 4 13. A Political Architecture of Leadership Crisis of the Kumasi Central Mosque From 1970 to 2013 14. Claiming Asante: The Akan Origins of Jamaican Maroons Part 5 15. Secular Government and the Court of the Asante Ahemaa in the 21st Century: An Ethnographic Account of Ejisu and Juaben Traditional Areas 16. Epidemiology and Local Responses to Diseases in Asante: A Focus on Kumase Since the Beginning of the Twentieth Century 17. Girl Child Education in Asante, 1901-1957