"Asante to the Basel Women's Association - A Report on the Boarding School in 1877"

The school had gone on peacefully in 1877 - the boys need to be prompted to tidiness and industry. He gives a biography of one of the Asante pupils. His name was Ofusuhene, his father had been the Asante representative in Kwahu, and thus taken prisoner when Kwahu declared for the English in the 1869-74 war and despatched with all the other Asante captives to Akim for onward escort to the coast. The father was one of those beheaded, however, and that the son was one of a party whom an English official tried to return to Asante, their escort only took them in fact to the last Akim town, and they were in fact secretly re-captured by the Akims. The boy was given to the chief of the border village by the Okyenhene, who in turn sold him to a rich man of the village, and Ofusuhene spent his time carrying loads to and from the coast. He then heard that there was a place in Kibi where slave boys could flee without fear of recapture.

31.01.1878

31.01.1878

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