Ghana, West Africa - King Prempeh, returned from exile
King Prempeh of Ashanti. Prempeh I (Otumfuo Nana Prempeh I, 1870-1931) was the 13th King ruler of the Asante state of the Kingdom of Ashanti and the Asante Oyoko Abohyen Dynasty ruling from 1888 until his death in 1931, and fighting an Ashanti war against Britain in 1893. In December 1895, the British left Cape Coast with an expeditionary force. It arrived in Kumasi in January 1896 under the command of Robert Baden-Powell. The Asantehene directed the Ashanti to not resist, as he feared a genocide. Britain annexed the territories of the Ashanti and the Fanti. Asantehene Agyeman Prempeh was deposed and arrested, and he and other Ashanti leaders were sent into exile in the Seychelles. In 1924, Asantehene Prempeh I Returned to the Gold Coast after staying in exile in the Seychelles for 24 years following his surrender of his kingdom and his arrest in 1896
