Traditional Ghanaian stool

Queen mothers may be seen in public sitting on the traditional stool as a seat of authority, communicating messages about the nature of leadership.

[5] It is important in the Akan tradition because it highlights the sense of community, social and political life,[3] tradition and serving as a symbol of unity and solidarity, believed to bind the souls of their kinsmen together in both the physical and metaphysical worlds.

[2] The stool has a great influence on when a leader assumes office and hence a popular term "enstoolment" is used.

[3] The conventional stool (asesedwa) is made from the sese wood that gives it the whitish appearance.

The traditional stool has a rectangular base with concentric rings of spider in the middle, a central support that communicates the message with figural representations[3] as a symbolism[2] of the stool and a carved seat on the central support where the person of authority sits on.