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Ashanti
noun
- pl. Ashanti a member of a W African people living mainly in Ashanti, in Ghana
- the variety of Akan spoken by this people
region in central Ghana: orig. a native kingdom, it was a protectorate in the Gold Coast from 1901 to 1957: 9,417 sq mi (24,390 sq km); pop. 2,090,000; cap. Kumasi
See Ashanti in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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