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  1. Chief of the Ashanti people in W Africa. He
  2. became king 1888, and later opposed British
  3. attempts to take over the region. He was
  4. deported and in 1900 the Ashanti were
  5. defeated. He returned to Kumasi (capital of
  6. the Ashanti region) 1924 as chief of the
  7. people.
  8.