Ancient Fanti (2026)

31/12/2025

THEN Why Was the 1844 Bond Signed?

Re-examining Fante Diplomacy and Sovereignty.

The 1844 Bond is often misunderstood as a sign of weakness. However, a closer look at the historical context reveals that it was a calculated move of statecraft by Fante leadership. (Nyansa)

1. The Bond Was Not a Surrender Treaty
The Bond of 1844 was an agreement of cooperation, not a treaty of conquest.
In traditional military defeats, specific indicators of surrender always occur—none of which happened here:
No Fante state was declared conquered.
No land was ceded or given away to the British or Any.
No Fante King was deposed or removed from power.
No Fante army was disarmed.

Instead, this was a judicial agreement. It focused on legal systems and the abolition of certain practices rather than military occupation, this was a negotiation.

2.
By 1844, the historical record already proved Fante resilience.
Ashanti invasions into the coast had been repeatedly blocked. Key strategic ports such as Anomabo, Cape Coast, Abura, and Komenda were never successfully held by Ashanti forces.
In fact, British governors of that era admitted that warfare on the coast was unwinnable.

Furthermore, Ashanti expansion had already been halted long before the 1844 Bond. Following their defeat in the 1826–27 war against a coastal alliance, the Ashanti accepted the Pra River as a formal political boundary.

A people who could not defend themselves would not be in a position to negotiate such terms.

3. Strategic Exhaustion After Decades of Warfare
From the late 1700s to the 1830s, the Fante states were caught in a "war of attrition" involving:
Continuous pressure from the Ashanti Empire.
Internal conflicts between Fante states.

British "double-dealing" (selling arms to both sides).

By the 1840s, Fante leaders recognized that constant war was draining their population, trade, and stability. Choosing law over war is an act of statecraft, not a sign of weakness.

The Bond served as a shield for Fante sovereignty. It:
Formally recognized Fante chiefs as legitimate rulers.
Left customary laws intact.
Limited British court intervention only to serious criminal cases.
the British did not achieve full colonial control until decades later.

Fante leadership saw the Bond as a strategic tool to isolate their rivals. By aligning with the British,
1: they could pressure the Dutch to stop supplying the Ashanti with weapons.

2: The British double standard of selling weapons would stop.

3: To disarm the Ashanti Empire.

4:To protect inland states facing constant Ashanti invasions.

This was a regional vision; protecting the surrounding tribes facing invasion. It was a move designed for long-term peace.
And it worked. Fante yi yansa dze gye NYAME
full stop 🛑

📜🇬🇭

30/12/2025

The Arab 📌

So damn… but the truth must be spoken.
Africa’s suffering is often attributed solely to the European slave trade—but we must also confront the Arab slave trade. Long before Europeans arrived on African shores, Arabs enslaved millions of Africans, particularly from East Africa, tearing families apart and committing atrocities that included castrations, brutal desert marches, and generations of extreme abuse. These practices left scars that still shape the region today.
East Africa bore the heaviest burden. Entire communities were destroyed, and whole generations disappeared. Yet African leaders often limit their demands for apology and reparations to Europe, while remaining silent about the catastrophic impact of the Arab slave trade.
One painful truth stands out: across much of the Arab world today, there are very few visible descendant Black populations comparable to those found in the Americas. This absence itself tells a tragic story—of enslavement systems designed not for survival or continuity, but for erasure. Many did not live to pass on families, names, or identities.
In contrast, despite the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade, African descendants survived, multiplied, and preserved elements of their heritage across the Americas. In the Arab slave trade, countless lives were extinguished completely—men castrated, women and children abused, communities erased from history.
It is time for Africa’s leaders to speak for all victims of slavery. East Africa deserves recognition, justice, and a voice. True healing cannot be selective. Truth must be complete, even when it is uncomfortable. Only then can the continent move forward with honesty and dignity.

30/12/2025

😳📌
History is actually hilarious sometimes.
Imagine the Battle of Anomabo the Ashanti army marched south not only with spears and guns, but also with heavy artillery and cannons purchased from the Dutch, hoping to secure victory.
In the end, they lacked the knowledge to operate and read the cannons manual, abandoned them, and fought mainly with guns instead. So they push all these heavyweight for nothing?

29/12/2025

ok they wan us to revisit the Anomabo Ashanti war, hope them no gonna say we hate them?

29/12/2025

😀😀😀 Smart Fantes.
The British governors actually admitted about how frustrated they were. They would hear a drum beat at a plantation 5 miles away, and suddenly, the people right in front of them would start cheering or picking up tools to fight. The British were "deaf" to a conversation that was happening right over their heads!

🇬🇭🥁 The Drumbeat of Freedom: How Fante (Akan) Warriors Used Talking Drums to Ignite Rebellions — and Why the British Feared Them.

They stole our people, but they could not steal our voice.
When Fante (Akan) men and women were taken from the Gold Coast across the Atlantic, they carried with them a culture of resistance — and a powerful technology of communication: the Atumpan (Talking Drum). To the British, these were not mere musical instruments. They were weapons of war.

🥁 The Secret Weapon: Talking Drums
The Fante language, like other Akan languages, is tonal — meaning pitch carries meaning. Because of this, skilled drummers could reproduce the rhythmic and tonal patterns of speech, allowing messages to travel over long distances.
What European ears dismissed as “noise,” Akan ears understood clearly:
• “The time of rising is near.”
• “Gather at the forest edge at midnight.”
• “Move from the north when the signal sounds.”

The drum was not entertainment. It was command, warning, and coordination.
🔥 Leaders Who Spoke Through the Drums

Quaw Badu (Ekow Badu)
During the 1760 Jamaican uprising known as Tacky’s War, Akan leaders remembered in both oral tradition and colonial records coordinated resistance through African signaling systems, including drums.

The near-simultaneous revolts across plantations shocked British authorities, who struggled to understand how enslaved Africans communicated so precisely without written messages.

Nana Cudjoe (Captain Kojo)
The legendary Coromantee (Akan) Maroon leader of Jamaica relied on African communication methods such as the Abeng (cow horn) and drumming traditions to track British troop movements. His signals allowed Maroon fighters to ambush colonial forces with devastating effectiveness in the Blue Mountains.

Akara — Commander in the Berbice Uprising (1763)
In present-day Guyana, Akara, a senior military leader under Kofi Badu, used African communication systems to organize and mobilize large rebel forces. Dutch observers recorded with alarm how armed Africans seemed to assemble suddenly from the forests, guided by unseen signals.

📜 British Fear — and the Ban
Colonial authorities eventually understood the truth:😀😀
As long as African drums could speak, rebellion could spread.

After the suppression of Tacky’s War in 1760, the Jamaican Assembly passed laws aimed at silencing African communication.
One act, intended to prevent future insurrections, ordered the confiscation of:
“all drums, horns, or other instruments of noise usually made use of by Negroes…”
Enslaved people caught using such instruments faced severe punishment😀😀.
The law did not target music alone — it targeted language, coordination, and resistance.😀

29/12/2025

NO MORE CONCOCTED lies, Chapter locked

✅ Fante States that Resisted Ashanti
Abura – Early 19th century
Repelled Ashanti raids; oral tradition preserves victories. Ashanti forces withdrew without occupying the town.

Anomabo – Late 18th – Early 19th century
Ashanti attacked but failed to hold the town; Fante guerrilla tactics disrupted them.

Kormantse / Cromantse – 1800s (exact date unclear)
Ashanti forces withdrew after suffering heavy losses. Oral tradition mentions their troops fell into a pit, and Asafo defenses contributed to their defeat.

Oguaa (Cape Coast) – 1825
Oguaa-led forces defeated Ashanti armies at the Battle ending Ashanti ambitions on the southern coast.

1873–74: United Fante States vs Ashanti Empire
For the first time, almost all coastal Fante states, along with allies like Assin and Denkyira, united to resist Ashanti incursions. Ashanti forces were decisively defeated, and coastal Fante autonomy Remained.

Fante states have been independent from the beginning. Do not let anyone tell you that Ashanti conquered or defeated the Fantes. Fabricated lies.

28/12/2025

ANOMABO AND THE ASHANTI EMPIRE, THE BLOODY WAR

When the Ashanti advanced toward Anomabo, the battle was fierce.

Blood flowed heavily, and due to the Ashanti army’s numerical superiority, the Anomabo warriors were initially overwhelmed. Some retreated, and to many observers it appeared that the Ashanti had won the battle.
But this is where the story most people do not know begins.

At the time, the British governor, Governor Torrane, witnessed the scale of the bloodshed and feared total devastation. He therefore negotiated a compensation agreement with the Ashanti king. The terms involved 2,000 captives:
1,000 were taken by the Ashanti,
1,000 were immediately traded by the British.

This agreement alone shows that Anomabo was not conquered, because conquerors do not negotiate compensation through a third party.
The Ashanti king then demanded that two Anomabo war leaders, Otibu and Aputai, who had earlier withdrawn through Assin, be handed over for ex*****on. Governor Torrane accepted this demand.

However, when the two men were brought forward, Aputai disappeared from the scene. Only Otibu remained — an old and blind warrior. Despite his condition, the Ashanti king ordered his ex*****on. Thus, a blind warrior was killed.

The Turning Point:
This act marked a turning point.
While the Ashanti army celebrated what they believed was a final victory and their king boasted that he had “conquered and touched the sea,” the Anomabo Asafo companies regrouped in the forest.

Knowing they were fewer in number and could not win open-field battles, they adopted a deliberate tactical strategy.
They attacked:
Ashanti supply lines
Food routes
Weapon logistics
Communication paths
Gradually,
the Ashanti forces were cut off from everything that sustained them.

At the same time, Ashanti troops near the coast were struck by strange and deadly diseases, weakening them further.

Hunger, sickness, and constant ambushes broke their strength.

Just as the old blind worrior had warned:
“You can never dominate Anomabo.”

While the Ashanti believed they had won, Anomabo warriors were tactically dominating the forest.
When the Ashanti king realized that the war was not over and that his forces were being outmaneuvered, he saw the signs of disaster and bad omen. He then gathered his armies and withdrew inland.

The Truth
Ashanti won an initial encounter
They did not occupy Anomabo
They installed no chiefs
They collected no tribute
They withdrew under pressure
Final verdict:
Ashanti fought a battle.
Anomabo won the war.

27/12/2025

THE AFTERMATH OF THE 1844 BOND:
HOW THE FANTES COUNTERED BRITISH COLONIAL AMBITIONS

When it became clear that the Bond of 1844 was twisted beyond its intent and vital clauses were omitted, the Fantes did not fold their arms. They responded.

After the Bond of 1844, the Fantes did not suddenly “submit” to the British, as some lazy narratives claim. What happened instead was strategic observation.

At first, many coastal leaders understood the Bond as a limited legal agreement—mainly to regulate courts and suppress disorder. Sovereignty was never formally surrendered. However, as the years passed, it became clear that the British were using the Bond as a tool for creeping judicial control, undermining traditional authority, imposing foreign administration, and sidelining indigenous law.

By the 1850s–1860s, Fante chiefs, merchants, and intellectuals fully recognized that something was wrong.
And they responded—not with chaos, but with organization, law, and unity.

Between 1868 and 1873, Fante states regrouped at Mankessim, the spiritual and political heart of Fante land. There, they formed the Fante Confederation—one of the most sophisticated indigenous political responses to European imperialism in 19th-century Africa.

The Confederation adopted a written constitution, creating:
A central government
A King-President
A National Assembly
An independent judicial system
A standing army
A taxation system to fund self-rule
This was not collaboration.
This was constitutional resistance.

The British opposed the Confederation precisely because it worked. It challenged colonial authority, limited British influence, and proved Fantes could govern themselves using modern state structures without European control.

History must be told honestly:
Strategic patience is not cowardice
Lawful resistance is not betrayal
Statecraft is not weakness
The Fantes did not “sleep.”
They studied, organized, and countered imperialism with intelligence and institutions.
📌 History is deeper than propaganda.

Watch out for the next episode

26/12/2025

Ashante Fante victory Myth or reality?

TIME FOR SOME HISTORICAL TRUTH

There is a vast difference between a War and an Invasion. If you unexpectedly invade a town, but have to withdraw within a few days because the resistance is too strong and you are losing your army, do you call that a victory or a loss?

In military science, if you win a battle but lose the war because you had to retreat, that is called a Pyrrhic victory, a victory that costs so much it is actually a defeat.

They keep saying they "conquered" the Fantes, but the facts tell a different story. These Asante invasions only ever reached some Fante towns and cities—never the entire Fante nation. Even in those specific places, they couldn't claim a permanent victory.
The truth is: the day all Fantes finally came together, the Asante never rose again.

📍 The Facts We Need to Address:
1️⃣ The "Sanction" Power: If you are conquered, you don't have the power to block your master’s trade. Yet, history shows the Fante often blocked the paths to Kumasi as a sanction. The fact that Fantes could stop Asante trade whenever they wanted proves they were still in control of their territory.

2️⃣ The Middleman Role: If the Coast was truly defeated, why did the Fantes keep their role as the exclusive middlemen? The Fantes continued to negotiate directly with the Europeans (British, Dutch, Danes, and Portuguese) while the Asante remained inland.

3️⃣ The Asafo Warriors: Our Asafo Companies are well-documented by every European power as the shield of the South. They defended against inland aggression for centuries. You cannot claim victory over a people whose military core—the Asafo—was never dismantled.

4️⃣ The Elmina Factor: It reached a point where the Asante King actually had to sign an agreement with the King of Elmina just to trade with the Dutch. If you own the land, why are you signing treaties just to get "passage" to the sea?

5️⃣ The "Broken Window" Logic: If you invade a house, break the windows, and then run away because the neighbors are fighting back too hard, you haven't "conquered" that house—you’ve simply raided it.
It’s time for a "rebranding" of our history based on facts.

Fante history stands firm: The Coast was never brought under inland rule. Our ancestors stayed sovereign, our culture stayed intact, and our trade stayed in our hands.
I’m calling on our Ghanaian historians to educate us! 📚✍️

24/12/2025

1844 Bond: the lies Britain traded for power and why an apology is still owed to the Fante people.

British officials later reported to the Crown and the Colonial Office that coastal chiefs including Fantes requested education and “civilisation.”
That report was a strategic lie, or at best, a deliberate distortion.

Let’s set the record straight 👇
What the Bond of 1844 really was
The Bond of 1844 was NOT an education treaty.

Its real focus was:
British jurisdiction over serious crimes (murder, robbery)
Ending practices like panyarring
Protecting trade and coastal security

Education was not the issue.
It was only later used as a justification for deeper British control.
Did the British claim Fantes requested education?
Yes. British officials wrote to the Crown claiming coastal chiefs wanted:
Schools
Christian instruction
Literacy and “civilisation”
But here’s what they did not explain 👇
Why the story was framed that way:
To justify British funding
To make colonial expansion appear voluntary
To present Britain as a benevolent partner, not an aggressor
This framing appears in colonial dispatches, including those associated with George Maclean and later governors.
What they deliberately left out (this matters)
Education already existed before 1844.
Castle schools existed in Cape Coast and Elmina
Fante elites were already:
Literate in English
Interpreters, traders, and diplomats
Some Fantes even studied in Europe
So this was not “teach us from scratch.”
Fante interest in education was strategic, not submissive:
Legal literacy to negotiate with Europeans
Commercial advantage
Diplomatic leverage
Education was a tool, not a surrender of sovereignty.
How Britain flipped the narrative
British claim:
“They requested our education and laws; therefore our rule is legitimate.”
Reality:
Fantes wanted controlled cooperation
Britain wanted gradual domination
Education became a soft weapon:
Language → administration
Schools → loyalty
Christianity → social restructuring
Why this counts as a lie
Not every lie is invented — some are manufactured through omission.
The British:
Omitted crucial facts
Changed intent
Presented limited elite cooperation as mass consent
Reframed legal control as “civilisation”
Used that narrative to expand power:
Education → courts → administration → colonisation
That meets the functional definition of a lie.
The truth that must be said
The British did not “gift” education to Fantes.
They institutionalised something Fantes were already selectively using.
British letters to the Queen were colonial justification, not neutral truth.
“When Britain told the Queen that Fantes requested education, they didn’t mention that Fantes were already literate, trading globally, and negotiating treaties. Education was not a gift — it was a battlefield.”

Britain owes the Fante people an apology not for teaching English,
but for misrepresenting Fante intentions to justify the loss of sovereignty.
That distortion:
Still shapes school curricula
Still portrays Fantes as passive recipients
Still erases resistance and political agency
This is not just about 1844.
It is about the theft of historical narrative.

24/12/2025

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