Prempch, the last King of Ase anti, who was deposed by the British in 1896, and exiled, first. ta) Elmina and subsequently to the Seychelles, was last_month on his way back'to Ashanti, A telegram from Gibraltar announced the arrival of Prempeh at that port ace companied by two sons and an oficial of the Geld Coast Service, From Gibraltar Prempeh was to be taken to Liverpool, where he {would tranship for the Gold Coast, Two ov three years ago several the Ashanti chiefs who ware dee ported to the Seychelles with Prempeh were allowed to return home, and the Ashanti petitioned that the ex-King himself might also be allowed to come back. After touch delay this request was granted, Pyempeh returns to Ashanti not as King, bt asa private person. [During his 28 years of exile he has become a Christian. While at the Seytheiies he had many companions exile, among them, for a short Line, Zaghlal Pasha. ' Others were Awinga the ex-King of Buganda (who died' at the Seychelles), Kabovega, the warrior King of Bunyoro (who, eventually released, died on his way back to Central Afrien) and Seyid Khaled of Zanzi bar.
Phempeh, then a youn man, became King of Awhanti after a ong desolating eivit war in March, 1886, his title ce Kinge being Kwake Dua Ulf. To pat an end to misgovconment and raids on the Gold Coast, Prempeh was called upon in 1895 Yo accept a British protect= Jorave, a force under Sir Francis Scots beings dispatched. to compel submission, Prempeh's exile fle lowed.
The golden stool, on which at his coronation Prempeh had. been enctooled, was hidden by the As-nomi. The search for it was the cause of the revolt of 1900 and of the siege of Coomassie, Not till 1921 war the stool discovered and then the British authorities, having earned that it was regarded as the chief religions symbol of the As-anti, laid no claim to it, This is believed to have dispelled the last lingering resentment felt by the Ashanti against the British and to have rendered possible the return lof Prempeh.
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