Questions About Kumasi, Asante Culture, and Explore Kumasi
Have a question about Kumasi, Asante culture, or how to use Explore Kumasi? Start here for quick answers, helpful links, and a little context behind the terms you may see across the site.
Have a question about Kumasi, Asante culture, or how to use Explore Kumasi? Start here for quick answers, helpful links, and a little context behind the terms you may see across the site.
Explore Kumasi shares information about Kumasi, Asante history, culture, traditions, language, places to visit, food, festivals, and everyday life in the Ashanti Region.
Yes. You can find guides to cultural sites, museums, markets, food, transportation, safety, day trips, and other useful information for visiting Kumasi and the Ashanti Region.
Kumasi is the capital of the Ashanti Region and the seat of the Asantehene. The Ashanti Region is an administrative region of Ghana, while Asanteman and the Asante Kingdom refer to the wider traditional and historical Asante system.
We use Asante for the people, culture, kingdom, and traditional names. Ashanti remains the official spelling in Ashanti Region and is also common in English-language records, books, and searches.
We use Asante voices, books, oral history, family knowledge, local scholarship, and historical records. Many widely available written sources came from European travelers, missionaries, and colonial officials, so we read those alongside Asante accounts and other sources.
Yes. If you learned something differently, have family or local knowledge to share, or know of a source we should review, we welcome it.
You can find our current guides, learning resources, printables, and other materials at www.explorekumasi.com/store.
Yes. You can join the Explore Kumasi Facebook community to ask questions, share knowledge, and connect with others at www.explorekumasi.com/facebook.