ABSTRACT
OSEI MENSA, known as MENSA BONSU, succeeded his brother towards the end of 1874. His enstoolment was.a melancholy affair, as only representatives of the big chiefs attended the ceremony.
His first care was to rebuildCoOMASSIE. Heinduced all the chiefs and their subjects to help him to repair the palace and their own houses. The services of the women were enlisted. Every chief woman, with all her female attendants, devoted three months to the making of "swish," of which material the men were to build the walls of the compounds.
