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IX. WHERE THREE CONTINENTS MEET: THE LIFE WORK OF J.E. KWEGYIR AGGREY
¢ Part One. 1875-1924
We threaded our way (in Chapter III) among the trading posts on the Gulf of Guinea, watched the wars and shifting alliances of the Fantis and other coastal tribes, and held our breath as the fierce Ashantis swept down upon them from the north. The reek of human sacrifices rose in our nostrils, the complaint of the slave was in our ears; yet we were won to admiration of Osai Tutu Kwamina, the great Ashanti king who died in Kumasi on the day that his armies first defeated a British force. This was in 1824.
We return, a little more than a century later, to a new day on the Gold Coast. Wars have ceased; slavery and the slave trade have faded into the past. Trade, largely in the hands of Native cultivators, prospers. Ashanti is a well-administered and progressive territory, with the beginnings of an adequate educational policy. Prempeh, the last of its long line of kings, is
