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Palace, Fort, and Museum: Instruments of Power and Status: Construction and Destruction
Once the site of the Aban, a stone royal fortress/museum built in the European mode, its destruction gave rise to a British colonial fortress, a forceful sign of occupation. Today it stands as…
Adum Royal Palace: From Empire's Core to a Shopping District
Throughout the 19th century, the five-acre Adum Royal Palace Complex was the center of an Empire that held its own against British onslaughts. Its death knell occurred in the 1890s, and the 20th…
Manhyia Royal Palace: Seat of the Post-19th Century Asante Monarchs
Current Asante narrative stresses that the Asante insisted on paying the British for the new royal palace in 1925, so their ruler need not be beholden to the colonialists. British records show their…