On "Concessions" and "Agreements"

I don't know who this gentleman speaking in the Video is, but our people should always provide context to the Pre-Colonial and Colonial situations.

The "Goldfields" agreement, makes the current Lithium "Agreement" worse and provides caution. It however elevates Professor Gyampo's anti-agreement stance.

By the way, he's wrong in claiming there was an endless conflict between "Adansi and Asante". The truth is that Adansi was rescued by Osei Tutu I, in 1701. Asante as a Nation did not fight against Adansi, which became a constituent part of Asanteman. Some Adansi Chiefs had fled from Adansi, and abandoned their land to, first Bɔ Amponsem in 1659; and again, to Dankyirahene Ntim Gyakari who defeated them in 1696.

In 1701, Asantehene Osei Tutu after defeating Dankyira, recalled Abu Bonsra from Akyem, and restored him to the Adansi Stool. Ɔpemsoɔ added "Afriyie" to the Abu Bonrsa name, hence Abu Bonsra Afiriyie.

Regarding the Video I'm providing a historical context to an understanding of the circumstances leading to the "Ɔboɔase Mines":

NO. There is a Story provides context, before that Story. What is the STORY behind the "first story"?

The "first story" started when the British government conceived a diabolical plan to get Otumfoɔ Asantehene out of the way, in order for Britain to assume total control of Asanteman, to facilitate the exploitation of our resources.

And, that so-called "first story had many layers". The British investors didn't just get up one day and said, hell; let's go out to mine for Gold in Asante, and name our enterprise Ashanti Goldfields.

The Europeans had coveted our gold and natural resources since the first Portuguese explorers arrived on our shores (Da Mina- El Mina) in 1471. That was followed by the better known voyage of Diego di Azambuja in 1482

However, the Trade in Humans, aka The Trans Atlantic Slave Trade which started in 1526 by the Portuguese was more profitable. The "capital" made from the TAST fueled the Industrial Revolution in Britain, the USA, and Western Europe.

In January 1896 the British were able to overthrow Asantehene Agyeman Prempeh I, and exiled him, the Asantehemaa Nana Yaa Akyaa, and some leading Chiefs (54 people) in all; for 28 years much of that (24 years) spent in the country of Seychelles.

In 1895, the Asantehene had despatched an Asanteman investment delegation led by Ɔhenenana John Owusu Ansa, a grandson of Asatehene Ɔsɛe Bonsu to London to solicit investors for a range of joint-development projects including Mines, Timber, and Agriculture.

The Group's activities were however, undermined at every turn by British financial and investment interests, who didn't want the Asantehene, and Asanteman to have any role in the exploitation of their own local resources. There was not going to be any joint ventures profitable to the African. Rather, Western Europe would forcibly dictate the terms, and Enforce the terms. (My Memo to post-independence African political "Leaders").

The Asante delegation returned empty-handed to Asanteman in late 1895. The fellow passengers on the Ship included British soldiers led by General Robert Baden Powell.

The Asantehene Prempeh I was taken to Elmina Castle by British soldiers, and their African Quislings. At Assin Prasu, safely out of Asante territory, they encountered agents of English "investors" who were to secure the land at Obuasi.

That's the story of the behind the "Story".

It is also the Story of the rampant economic exploitation of African resources by rapacious foreign investors, encouraged and abetted by their governments whose financial and economic policies help to put Africa in stranglehold, and in check. It all began with Asanteman.

Study the Past.