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Title: | The Fanti Confederacy, 1865-69: An Inquiry into the Origins, Nature, and Extent of an Early West African Protest Movement |
Author: | Agbodeka, F. |
Year: | 1964 |
Periodical: | Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana |
Volume: | 7 |
Pages: | 82-123 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Ghana West Africa |
Subjects: | history Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) History and Exploration colonialism |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/41405766 |
Abstract: | Some aspects of the early West African protest movement, the Fanti Confederacy of 1868, have received as yet no. satisfactory attention. Without careful analysis it has been assumed that the movement for Fanti self-government derived from the Report of the 1865 Parliamentary Committee which recommended British withdrawal from the greater part of the coast of Western Africa. This suggestion gives only part of the picture, as does the assertion that the movement sprang from the Anglo-Dutch interchange of forts in 1868. Equally misleading is the official claim that the Confederacy was an affair of a few disgruntled mulattos and 'semi-educated blacks'. Even before the 1860s there was a widespread under-current of disaffection which manifested itself in the concern of the chiefs and people not only for the preservation of their ancient judicial rights, but also for the security of their states and consequently for the achievement of a strong national government of the entire coast. All this is discussed along historical lines in the present article. Notes. |