The Ashen Crown of Akra

1635. A pit. Thirty-one men. And a queen who dug it herself.
This is not the story of how Dode Akabi died.
This is the story of how she lived.
Born a Guan princess in a world that had already decided her ceiling, she married the wealthiest king on the Gold Coast, watched him die, and then did the one thing nobody in the history of the Ga people had ever done. She sat on the war-stool. A woman. A foreigner. A person the gods had not sanctioned and the priests could not control.
And she stayed there for twenty-five years.
The Ashen Crown of Akra is the epic story of West Africa's most dangerous queen. Of the wars she won that men took credit for. Of the laws she wrote that terrified an entire kingdom into order. Of the European merchants she weaponized. Of the son she protected so fiercely she nearly destroyed him. Of the priests who smiled at her face and sharpened their knives behind her back.
Of the night she walked to the edge of a pit and chose her own ending before they could choose it for her.
Inspired by the true history of Naa Dode Akabi of the Ga Kingdom, ancient Ghana.
For readers of Empress Ki. The Woman King. Jodha Akbar. Jhansi Ki Rani. Elizabeth I.
Africa has always had its queens.
It is time you met this one.