Ghana: Treaties
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 3 December 2024 to Question 15510 on Ghana: Treaties, whether his Department holds any record (a) of a treaty ceding Akwamu to the Gold Coast Colony signed in 1886 and (b) the ratification of any such treaty.
Answered by Anneliese Dodds
UK Treaties Online (UKTO) provides a record of treaties, with links to texts of command papers published in the UK Treaty Series from 1892. We do not hold any UKTO record of the treaty referred to in this question or Question 15510 on Ghana:Treaties. However, information relating to treaties, including historic treaties for which there is no UKTO record, may be held by The National Archives (TNA), as in this case. Since the Answer of 3 December 2024, we have been provided with a copy of relevant information held by TNA in the context of a Freedom of Information request. Based on this information, we have carried out further research and identified a brief excerpt of a treaty concluded in 1886 "between the Governor of the Gold Coast and the King and people of Aquamoo" in The Map of Africa by Treaty (3rd ed.), printed by His Majesty's Stationery Office in 1909. Neither TNA information nor the book excerpt contains any information about ratification.
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