Okatakyie Barima Amo🗽

1/1 Let’s stop pretending. Wodemaya crossed a line, and no amount of historical sugarcoating will change that. You don’t walk onto a global platform and reduce the legacy of the mighty Asante Kingdom to slavery, then pretend you’re “educating” people. You’re not. You’re fueling a narrative that outsiders have used for centuries to belittle African greatness. •Let’s talk history? Fine. Let’s talk all of it. Asantes were not the only tribe that participated in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Fantes, Ahantas, Asantes, Akyems, Akwamu, Denkyira, Bono, Ewes, Ga, Gonja, Dagomba etc all took part. Asantes, like all powerful empires of their time, participated in slavery. No one is denying that. But to single out the Asante Kingdom, a nation built on gold, resistance, military genius, and cultural sophistication, as some kind of poster child for slave trading is not history. It’s selective attack. Now let’s flip the script. If you really want to talk slave trade, let’s look at Wodemaya’s own tribal history: 1. The Fantes (The Slave Middlemen) The Fantes built entire economies around the slave trade. They served as the brokers between inland kingdoms and European merchants, controlling the coastal trade routes. • Chief Kwamena Ansah of Anomabu ran one of the largest slave markets in West Africa. • King Aggrey of Cape Coast openly sold slaves to the British and Dutch from Northern Ghana and even parts of present-day Burkina Faso. •Chief John Corrente (or Corrente family). A powerful Fante trader from Anomabo in the 18th century. Worked closely with British and Dutch traders. He was known for controlling inland trade routes and serving as a broker in the slave trade. • Chief Eno: Another Anomabo-based merchant leader known to have traded enslaved people to Europeans. • The Eguafo and Komenda Chiefs: Though sometimes rivaling the Fante, these nearby coastal states were often aligned or intermixed with Fante traders and similarly involved in the slave trade. • The Bannerman Family (Cape Coast) A well-known Fante-Euro-African family engaged in trade, including slaves during the earlier phases. Members later became colonial administrators and advocates for reform. • The Brew Family Based in Cape Coast and Elmina, they were Afro-European merchant elites of Fante descent who dealt in slaves and later transitioned into legitimate trade as abolition progressed. •John Cabess Though not strictly Fante (he was associated with Komenda and Axim), he was part of the broader Fante trade networks and wielded significant power along the coast in the late 17th century. • The Fante Confederacy became wealthy by selling their own rivals and acting as agents of European slave forts like Cape Coast Castle and Anomabu Fort. They didn’t just passively benefit, they were central players in shipping tens of thousands of Africans into brutal plantations across the Atlantic. 2. The Ahantas (Wodemaya’s Tribe) The Ahantas were deeply entangled in the slave trade. Their territory was home to Dutch and Portuguese forts used explicitly for the export of slaves. Badu Bonsu II, the Ahanta chief, collaborated directly with the Dutch. He enslaved rival factions and supplied captives to European merchants in exchange for guns and gin. After a conflict with the Dutch (in part about sovereignty and trade control), he was captured and executed in 1838, and his head was infamously taken to the Netherlands (it was returned in 2009)