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Yaa Asantewaa

1840 - 1921

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Yaa Asantewaa I (c. 1840 – 17 October 1921) was the Queen Mother of Ejisu in the Ashanti Empire, now part of modern-day Ghana. She was appointed by her brother Nana Akwasi Afrane Okese, the Edwesuhene, or ruler, of Edwesu. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yaa Asantewaa has received more than 610,428 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Yaa Asantewaa is the 14,013th most popular politician (down from 10,720th in 2019).

Memorability Metrics

  • 610k

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  • 48.64

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Yaa Asantewaa ranks 14,013 out of 19,576. Before her are Kaspar Villiger, Stephen Gardiner, Caroline Harrison, Wei Fenghe, Cándido Bareiro, and Tamara Rylova. After her are Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, Mpande kaSenzangakhona, Ibrahim al-Hamdi, Theophano of Athens, Lucius Aemilius Barbula, and Ludeca of Mercia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1840, Yaa Asantewaa ranks 79. Before her are Hilarión Daza, Ferdinand Sarrien, Illarion Pryanishnikov, Henri Duveyrier, Iakob Gogebashvili, and Juan Bautista Gill. After her are William Henry Conley, Simeon Solomon, Jeanna Bauck, Ghazaros Aghayan, John Philip Holland, and Charles Booth. Among people deceased in 1921, Yaa Asantewaa ranks 100. Before her are Virginia Rappe, Jan Janský, Edward Douglass White, Milenko Radomar Vesnić, Lev Chernyi, and Ludwig Knorr. After her are Władysław Żeleński, Hans Huber, Mustafa Subhi, Fernand Courty, Oswald Schmiedeberg, and C. I. Scofield.

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