Yaa

/ YAH /
Gender
Girl
Origin
🇬🇭 Ghana
Religion
Traditional
First Seen
Trait
Courageous

Meaning & Etymology

Born on a Thursday.

Immortalised by Yaa Asantewaa, the queen mother of Ejisu who led the Ashanti uprising against British colonial forces in 1900.

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Yaa Asantewaa

Resistance leader · Ghana · b. 1840

Ashanti queen mother who led the War of the Golden Stool against British colonisation.

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