Gold Coast artisan, farmer, philanthropist and nationalist
Jacob Kwaw Wilson Sey
Portrait of Jacob Wilson Sey
Born
(1832-03-10)10 March 1832
Biriwa, Gold Coast
Died
22 May 1902(1902-05-22) (aged 70)
Cape Coast, Gold Coast
Nationality
British subject
Other names
Kwaa Aboan’nyi or Kwaa Bonyi
Occupations
Artisan
Farmer
Philanthropist
Known for
First recorded indigenous multi-millionaire on the Gold Coast
Co-founder, architect and financier of the Aboringines' Rights Protection Society (ARPS)
Spouse
Agnes Charlotte Amba Kosimah Morgue
Jacob Kwaw Wilson Sey (10 March 1832 – 22 May 1902), also known as Kwaa Bonyi, was a colonial era Fante artisan, farmer, philanthropist, nationalist and the first recorded indigenous multi-millionaire on the Gold Coast (present-day Ghana).[1][2][3][4][5] He played a major role in the Aborigines' Rights Protection Society (ARPS), founded to oppose the 1896 Crown Lands Bill and the 1897 Lands Bill that threatened the traditional land tenure system and stipulated that all unused lands be controlled by the British colonial government.[1][2][3][4] The society was the 19th-century precursor which laid the foundation for the mid-20th-century "ideological warfare" pushed by the Gold Coast intelligentsia and the independence movement.[6][7] Some academic scholars regard him as the "first real architect and financier towards Ghana's independence" and the ARPS as "the first attempt to institutionalize nationalist sentiment in the then Gold Coast."[6][7]
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