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Title: | Akwankwaa: Owusu Sekyere Agyeman in His Life and Times |
Author: | McCaskie, Thomas C. |
Year: | 1998 |
Periodical: | Ghana Studies |
Volume: | 1 |
Pages: | 91-122 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Ghana |
Subjects: | Ashanti political action biographies (form) Politics and Government History and Exploration colonialism Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
About person: | Owusu Sekyere Agyeman (1887-1957) |
Abstract: | In January 1935 the Asante Confederacy was restored by the British colonial government of the Gold Coast (present-day Ghana). In August destoolment charges were preferred against the Asantehene (King) Osei Agyeman Prempeh II. This sparked a crisis that endured until September 1936, when the last of the identified conspirators was deported from Asante by British fiat. Both the Asante elite and the British administration rightly identified Owusu Sekyere Agyeman as the originator and organizer of the attempt to remove the Asantehene. This paper looks at the life and times of O.S. Agyeman (1887-1957). In the political world, Agyeman, the descendant of an Asantehene, had always been branded as a political agitator. For years he tried to be enstooled 'kyidomhene/ankaasehene' in emulation of his paternal grandfather. O.S. Agyeman's life illustrates the unappeasable appetite to rise imposed by his background. He and others like him were prisoners of genealogical expectation, and this drove them on. Notes, ref. |