CAPE COAST CASTLE OCTOBER 1873
Moving with impressive speed, Wolseley called together the chiefs and kings to a palaver the next day. Rather than squeeze the kings into Government House, Wolseley had ordered the servants to erect a large marquee on the grounds.
“It"s a bit like the umbrellas of the Ashantis,” Jack remembered the colourful gatherings at Kumasi. Perhaps we are even more similar than Yaa Asantewaa thought.
“On this coast," Wolseley said, “They call such a gathering a palaver. Old India hands such as myself know it better as a durbar, where we meet the local kings, rajahs and whatnots, listen to their points of view and then tell them what we"re going to do.”
Jack thought that Wolseley seemed very sure of himself for a man so new to the coast. “I"ve attended a few durbars
