Kumasi is the capital of the Asanti region in South Central Ghana.

It's a pretty big city with a population of over 3 million people.

In the city center, there's a hospital called the Acunfo Anote Hospital.

It's the second largest hospital in Ghana and the largest in the Asanti region.

But behind the hospital, in the courtyard, you'll find the strength of the Asanti people,

the sword of a Kumfaw Anote planted in the ground over 300 years ago.

A sword that's said to be a movable.

I'm Baudelaire and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible, and wondrous places.

Today, we're going to Kumasi Ghana to hear the legend of a Kumfaw Anote sword in the tribe it holds together.

More after this.

A Kumfaw Anote sword is stabbed in the ground in a small, hot-shaped building in a courtyard behind the Kumfaw Anote hospital.

Have you ever visited the sword?

Yes, years ago.

What was that like?

This way I can describe it is you're having like an experience, like a spiritual experience.

That is Anthony Yeyi-Kobina.

He recently published a book on Asanti History.

I called him up to chat about the sword.

You can literally see you.

There's some kind of energy about it.

You know, this is something that they believe in.

They believe alone when they are telling you the story.

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