ABSTRACT
The return of Adu Bofo to Kumasi after the death of Dompre and his bitter campaign in the Krepi country caused the centre of interest in the Sagrenti war to shift to the main Cape Coast-Kumasi road. The war in the east, however, was far from over, as poor Captain Glover found when he tried to raise a force from the eastern districts to advance on Kumasi. The frontiers thus drawn were determined without reference to African wishes, and both on the east and on the west African political units were divided by an arbitrary frontier line. Captain Glover had already begun his trans-Volta campaign against the Anlo when he received Sir Garnet’s peremptory orders to march at once for the Pra and be ready to cross it on 15th January, 1874. In 1877 and 1878 there was serious trouble in the Keta district.
