The National Archives UK - CO
1897 Kumasi, Ghana
This 1897 photograph, part of the UK National Archives' colonial file series CO 1069, documents a scene in Kumasi, capital of the Ashanti kingdom in what is now Ghana, in the years before it was fully incorporated into the British Gold Coast colony.
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