History of Asante Bekwai, Kokofu, Sagrenti war and why Bekwai Roundabout is in Kumasi (Nana Minta).

History of Asante Bekwai, Kokofu, Sagrenti war and why Bekwai Roundabout is in Kumasi (Nana Minta).
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Several prominent Asante chiefs perished when the British Army clashed with soldiers of the Ashanti Kingdom at Amoaful near Asante Bekwai in 1874. The clash also saw about 4,000 Ashanti soldiers losing their lives on the battlefield.
In what became known as 'Sagrenti War', the British Army under the command of Major-General Sir Garnet Wosely with the support of forces brought from Nigeria, Sierra Leone, among other parts of the world march to Kumasi from Cape Coast.
British engineers until then were brought in to expand roads and build bridges over streams and rivers in the Gold Coast, mainly with the intent of invading the Asante Kingdom.
The expansion of road network to Kumasi was to ease the deployment of soldiers.
On the list is Asante warlord, Bantamahene, Baffuor Amankwatia; Asuowinhene Kwame Mprah; Toasehene, Nana Ampofo; Nana Atta Fosu, Kwasohene; who all fell at war in the thick forest of Amoaful near Asante Bekwai.
Others included Nana Domeh, Kwamohene as well as Asansohene, Nana Asare Bediako, Nana Akora Gyimah, Amakomhene as well as a prominent Asantehene linguist, Nana Baffuor Appiah, Amoaful Poku II, then Amoafulhene and several other chiefs.
The list is endless as over 4, 000 Ashanti soldiers perished in that war.
According to Professor Tom McCaskie, a prominent historian at the Center of West African Studies at Birmingham University, the conduct of Otumfuor Kofi Karikari who was destooled after the Sagrenti War played a part in events leading to the war.
“Kofi Karikari was a worse. He distributed money to buy popularity and he was eventually destoooled at the end of the ‘Sagrenti War’
British forces pillaged the Asantehene's Palace in Kumasi during the conflict, which came to be known as the ‘Sagrenti War’.
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