"Werner to Basel"

The contact between the three Kwahu sub-chiefs and Kumasi which seems to have been the base of the rumour, was a group of 4 men sent from Obo to Asante to receive the money for a delivery of salt. Werner reckons that what really happened was that Karikari, on Adu Bofo’s advice, promised this money in the event of the Kwahus returning to their allegiance to Asante. The crisis seems to have been generated in Kwahu. When the messenger came from the Protectorate – “quite out of breath” with the odd rumour about what was going out there, the tension seems to have dissolved as far as the missionaries were concerned: they were looking forward to getting the building work which had been interrupted by the crisis under way again at the beginning of the next week.

25.08.1876

25.08.1876

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