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“How can a proud and brave people like the Asante sit back and look while white men took away their king and chiefs, and humiliated them with a demand for the Golden Stool.”
As reported by Agnes Akosua Aidoo · Oral tradition of the Kumasi council of 1900, in Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria 9:1 (1977), p. 12
Context Recalled from the council held after British Governor Hodgson demanded the Golden Stool in March 1900; the uprising she led against British rule followed.
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