African History: The Fante Confederacy
In this 7 week course, students will learn about the history of the Fante Confederacy
Chidumebi Ikechi Njoku-Browne
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What's included
7 live meetings
4 hrs 40 mins in-class hoursClass Experience
Students will learn the History of the Fante Confederacy The topics covered will be listed in this outline: Week 1: Origins • Where are these people located? • Akan people • The issue with finding verifiable Akan history • Traveling from the Sahara • Trouble with Pharaohs • Fleeing the Axumite Empire • In hot water with the Ghana Empire • Kingdom of Bonoman is founded • What made Bonoman so important • Resisting Islam • The descendant tribes of Bonoman Week 2: Portugal arrives on the board • Bonoman, the wealthy kingdom • The Mankessim • The Asafo • 1470-Portugal comes to dock • Anomansah and the War of Castilian Succession • The Treaty of Alcacovas • Portuguese castles • Akwamu and Asante force an alliance • Birth of a loose confederacy Week 3: The Dutch start knocking • The Dutch West India Company • Fighting the Akwamu • The Fante-Dutch war • The Dutch chill out • Slamming down on the Ashanti Empire • Asen/Twifo wars • Bribes, bribes, bribes, the French, Dutch and British • Takyi’s issues with Europeans • Gun shots fired Week 4: The Four Komenda Wars • William Boseman • John Cabess • Failure of British Spies • Dutch Kidnappers • Dutch on the back foot • Terra joins the war • Failed assassinations • Lesser Takyi • Takyi vs Takyi • British and Dutch won’t stop shooting each other. • More bribes and the Takyis switch sides • Takyi is dead, long live Takyi. • Civil war again • Smallpox Week 5: The Ashanti break free. • No longer able to control the Ashanti • Conquer or die • Ashanti-Twifo War • Akyem invasions • Ashanti-Wasa conflict • Forming a grand alliance • Ashanti tries to weaken the alliance • Alliance already weakening. • The Fante restore confidence • Trying to bribe the British • Ashanti-Fante Cold War Week 6: Changing governments • Building a republic • Making sure no one is too strong • Trees of Judgement • The way the government works Week 7: Ashanti-Fante hot war • Financing rebellions • Grave robbing and King-nabbing • British save the day? • Ga-Fante war • Ashanti get crushed • Britain and Holy Roman Fante • Bonoman falls • The actual Fante Confederacy is born • Fante-Dutch war • Britain gets nervous • The Ultimate Bribe to end nations • Well that was anticlimactic My class will be structured along the history of this confederacy I will teach using a mixture of image clips, discussion and lecture. My teaching style can be described as interactive Learners will get to interact with me using a mixture of lecture, slides and discussion No required knowledge is needed. The class will be taught on the assumption that this is first time knowledge.
Learning Goals
Students will learn the history of the Fante Confederacy
Other Details
Parental Guidance
This class includes topics such as war and slavery and imperial conquest
Supply List
The outline in word document form will be attached. I will also attach some pdfs if some students want to read more on their own.
3 files available upon enrollment
External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
Sources
Aderinto, Saheed. African Kingdoms: an Encyclopedia of Empires and Civilizations. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2017.
Deffontaine, Yann, and Boulègue Jean. Européens Et Africains En Efutu Et Sur La Cote De L'Or: Les Acteurs Du Commerce Atlantique Et Leurs stratégies Durant Un siècle De Relations Afro-européennes Sur La Cote De L'Or (Ghana, 1650-1750). Lille: Atelier national de reproduction des thèses, 1996.
Fynn, John K. “Fante Oral Traditions:” The Ghana Reader, 2016, 63–68. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv125jqp2.14.
Konadu, Kwasi. Akan Peoples in Africa and the Diaspora: a Historical Reader. Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2015.
LAW, ROBIN. “THE GOVERNMENT OF FANTE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY,” January 1, 2013.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/43305079?refreqid=search-gateway.
McCarthy, Mary. Social Change and the Growth of British Power in the Gold Coast: the Fante States, 1807-1874. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1983.
Njoku, Raphael Chijioke. “West African Masking Traditions and Diaspora Masquerade Carnivals: History, Memory, and Transnationalism,” January 1, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv114c79k?refreqid=search-gateway.
Okyere, Vincent N. Ghana: a Historical Survey. Accra: Vinojab Publications, 2019.
Shumway, Rebecca. The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Rochester, NY: Univ. of Rochester Press, 2014.
Joined June, 2019
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857reviews
Teacher expertise and credentials
2 Degrees
Master's Degree in Public Administration from University of Baltimore
Bachelor's Degree in Political Science and Government from Alvernia University
I am a researcher at the African History Museum at the Smithsonian. I have been a researcher of African history since 2011. I was able to retrieve some of the more obscure history for this particular topic from oral historians. I have taught several African history courses and I myself am Nigerian.Reviews
Live Group Class
$84
for 7 classes1x per week, 7 weeks
40 min
Completed by 10 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 10-15
1-12 learners per class
