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Title: | Ashanti, Juaben and M. Bonnat |
Author: | Johnson, Marion |
Year: | 1971 |
Periodical: | Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana |
Volume: | 12 |
Pages: | 17-41 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Ghana |
Subjects: | Ashanti polity anticolonialism Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) History and Exploration colonialism Economics and Trade |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/41405791 |
Abstract: | Marie-Joseph Bonnat, a French trader, was taken prisoner by an Ashanti army at Ho in 1869, and spent four years in captivity in Ashanti. During this time he was much impressed by the importance of the kola trade at Salaga, and also, apparently, by reports of the amount of ivory obtainable there. The object of reaching Salaga and establishing trade became something of an obsession during his captivity, and after his release he was actively engaged in trying to put his ideas into operation. This paper is based mainly upon correspondence published in the two British Blue Books, C 1343 of 1875 and C1402 of 1876, Further Correspondence relating to the affairs of Her Majesty's Possession in West Africa. The principal additional source is M. Bonnat's diary of his journey up the Volta. The paper presents information on the political situation in Ashanti, especcially with regard to the difficulties between Kumasi and Juaben, and British colonial policy at Cape Coast in the 1870s. Notes. |