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It is on record that King John Aggrey Essien of Oguaa (Cape Coast) was the first king in the 19th century to really have challenged the legitimacy of British authority. Organizing systematic protests against the British earned him the accolade as one of the African political martyrs of British imperialism, but not the first king of Cape Coast. King John ...

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