CHAPTER 11WHILE THE SCRIPTWRITERS WORKED ON their screenplay, three tutors kept me busy, at Anokye’s behest. One worked on my Asante language skills, though to scant effect; one coached me in the intricacies of Asante culture and philosophy; and the third gave me a crash course on Asante and Ghanaian history, from which I prepared the notes which follow.
Man probably makes his first appearance in this part of the world, in small numbers, a thousand years before Christ, perhaps earlier. Three thousand years ago West Africans about whom little is known start producing the remarkable Nok terracotta sculptures. Fifteen hundred years ago the first great state is established in the savannah country south of the Sahara: Ghana; to be succeeded by Mali and then Songhai. A thousand years ago new im
