The Asanteman Council - the highest traditional authority in Asante - has announced the dates for the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the 3rd Anglo-Asante war also known as the Sagrenti war, which led to the burning and looting of the palace of the Asantehene, Kofi Karikari.
Giving details, the Juabenhene, Nana Otuo Siriboe II told Graphic Online that the anniversary will be marked with a symposium on February 6, 2024, and a durbar on February 8, 2024.
“The war was fought on 6th February. The plan we have on the table is that we will hold a symposium on the 6th of February, and on the 8th, we will hold a durbar,” he said at the last meeting of the year of the Asanteman Council at the Manhyia Palace, reports Graphic Online's Kwame Asare Boadu.
The anniversary of the Sagrenti war will be one of the important events to be celebrated in Asanteman in 2024, a year which will above all, witness the Silver Jubilee of the coronation of the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II.
The Juabenhene further indicated that, a 700-page book on the history of the Asante Kingdom put together by the British in collaboration with traditional rulers of the Kingdom will be launched.
Sagrenti war
In 1874, the British army led by General Sir Garnet Wolseley charged on the Asante army which had earlier inflicted a crushing defeat on the British, and had also been attacking the coastal states of the Gold Coast.
Because the people of Gold Coast could not pronounce the name Sir Garnet Wolseley, the war was referred to as the “Sagrenti War”.
An article titled, “the Sagrenti war and the sacking of Kumasi” published by the Edward A. Ulzen Foundation, stated, “The capital, Kumasi, was abandoned by the Ashanti when the British arrived on February 4. They demolished the royal palace with explosives, leaving Kumasi a heap of smouldering ruins."
Source: Graphiconline
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Also come out with a book on the YAA ASANTEWAA war of 1900, the war that finally brought Asante under British colonial rule. On the 1 of January 1902, the British by an order in council annexed Asante as a crown colony. The British first brought the coastal states under their rule, secondly the brought Asante and last but not the least the northern territories which was called the "Asante hinterland" was made a British protectorate culminating in what we now call Ghana formally the Gold Coast. It was the Asante who could not pronounce Sir Garnet Worsley well and rather called him Sagrenti not the people of the Gold Coast. The war was between the Asante and the British not the whole of the Gold Coast. Am also challenging the Asantehene to call for the correct spelling of their ethnic group ie ASANTE and NOT ASHANTI.We used to have the BRONG AHAFO region. With the creation of new regions the name was changed from the corrupted pronunciation to the correct one i.e. BONO region and not BRONG region. How come we have ASHANTI REGION but when it comes to their king they refer to him as ASANTEHENE and NOT ASHANTIHENE? Someone should educate me on this