The Asante Empire (Asante Twi: Asanteman), also known as the Ashanti Empire, was an Akan state that lasted from 1701 to 1901, in what is now modern-day Ghana. [6] It expanded from the Ashanti Region to include most of Ghana and also parts of Ivory Coast and Togo. [7] [8] Due to the empire's military prowess, wealth, architecture, sophisticated hierarchy and culture, the Asante Empire has been ...

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Boyd Alexander (1873–1910), English ornithologist who made surveys of birds in the Gold Coast (now Ghana), and the Bonin Islands; Richard D. Alexander (1929–2018), American evolutionary biologist whose scientific pursuits integrated systematics, ecology, evolution, natural history and behaviour

Sierra Leone (/ s i ˌ ɛr ə l i ˈ oʊ n (i)/ ⓘ, also UK: / s i ˌ ɛər ə-/, US: / ˌ s ɪər ə-/; [8] [9] Krio: Salone), [10] officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa.It is bordered to the southeast by Liberia and by Guinea to the north. Its land area is 73,252 km 2 (28,283 sq mi). [11] It has a tropical climate and environments ...