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If you, the men of Asante, will not go forward, then we will. We, the women, will fight until the last of us falls on the battlefield.

Yaa Asantewaa's declaration rallying the Asante to resist British colonial rule when the male chiefs hesitated, becoming a lasting symbol of courage and women's leadership.

Yaa Asantewaa, Ghana

Source: Yaa Asantewaa, war council speech, Kumasi, 1900 (recorded in Asante oral history and Ghanaian historical accounts of the War of the Golden Stool)

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