[ 01 ] YOUR KING PREMPEH I IS IN EXILE AND WILL NOT RETURN TO ASHANTI. HIS POWER AND AUTHORITY WILL BE TAKEN OVER BY THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE QUEEN OF BRITAIN. THE TERMS OF THE 1874 PEACE TREATY OF FOMENA […] HAVE NOT BEEN FORGOTTEN. YOU HAVE TO PAY WITH INTEREST THE SUM OF £160,000 A YEAR. [...] THE QUEEN IS ENTITLED TO THE STOOL [...] WHERE IS THE GOLDEN STOOL? [...] WHY HAVE YOU RELEGATED ME TO THIS ORDINARY CHAIR? WHY DID YOU NOT TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY OF MY COMING TO KUMASI TO BRING THE GOLDEN STOOL FOR ME TO SIT UPON? [...] THOUGH THE GOVERNMENT HAS NOT RECEIVED THE GOLDEN STOOL AT HIS HANDS IT WILL RULE OVER YOU WITH THE SAME IMPARTIALITY AND FAIRNESS AS IF YOU HAD PRODUCED IT.

—VERBATIM TRANSCRIPT OF SIR FREDERICK HODGSON,
BRITISH GOVERNOR OF THE GOLD COAST
25 MARCH, 1900

[ 02 ] THE GOLDEN STOOL REPRESENTED THE SOUL OF THE NATION. THE IMPORTANCE OF THE STOOL WAS CRUDELY GRASPED BY THE BRITISH AT A TIME OF AGGRESSIVE IMPERIAL EXPANSION.

[ 03 ] THE FETISH PRIEST, OKOMFO ANOKYE, IS CREDITED WITH CONJURING THE GOLDEN STOOL FROM THE SKY IN THE 17TH CENTURY.

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