Ashanti was a British Crown Colony in West Africa from 1902 until its independence as part of the dominion named Ghana in 1957.

[2] The outcome was the annexation of Ashanti by the British so that it became part of His Majesty's dominions and a British Crown Colony with its administration undertaken by a Chief Commissioner under the authority of the Governor of the Gold Coast.

[4] The legislation by which this annexation was effected and the administration constituted was the Ashanti Order in Council 1901 made on 26 September 1901.

[3][5] The Ashanti lost their sovereignty but not the essential integrity of their socio-political system.

[6] Ashanti continued to be administered with the greater Gold Coast but remained, nonetheless, a separate Crown Colony until it became united as part of the new dominion named Ghana under the Ghana Independence Act 1957.