King Koffee Palace
1874 Kumasi, Ghana
The palace of Asantehene Kofi Karikari, known to the British as 'King Koffee', in Kumasi, Ghana, photographed in 1874, the year British forces captured the Ashanti capital during the Third Anglo-Ashanti War.
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