Queen Yaa Asantewaa was first buried in the Seychelles, specifically in Victoria, the capital city on Mahé Island.

She died in exile on October 17, 1921, after being captured by the British and deported along with other Ashanti leaders following the War of the Golden Stool in 1900. Like King Prempeh I and other members of the Ashanti royal court, she spent her final years away from her homeland under British colonial custody.

Although there have been calls and aspirations over the years to repatriate all of her remains to Ghana, her grave remains in Seychelles, where it has become a site of historical importance and remembrance, particularly for visitors interested in Pan-African history and anti-colonial resistance.

Queen Yaa Asantewaa—often referred to as “Ghana’s Joan of Arc”—remains one of the most revered figures in African history. In 1900, she led the Ashanti people in the famed War of the Golden Stool, a bold and final armed resistance against British colonial rule. Captured and exiled by the British, she spent the last 20 years of her life in the Seychelles, where she died in 1921. Her grave remains there to this day, apparently not all of her remains were brought back to the Ahanti kingdom, under British colonial rule. However, today, her (traditional) burial site is marked under a large, centuries‑old tree in Besease, and plans are underway to erect a Yaa Asantewaa Memorial Cenotaph, or heritage monument, to properly honor her legacy