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Excerpt from Fanti Law Report of Decided Cases on Fanti Customary Laws: Second Selection The cases reported in this volume have been selected from the Records of the Appeal and Divisional Courts at Accra, Axim, Cape Coast Castle, and Elmina. Except four cases which were included in "Fanti Customary Laws," the cases herein appearing have not been previously reported. The Judges of the Supreme Court have given me every access to the Records, and I have been enabled to report some decisions on the practice of the Court, as well as on the Concessions Ordinance. For the comparatively large number of appeal decisions reported, my thanks are due to my friend, A. Boi Quartey Papafio, Esq., LL.B., of Lincoln's Inn, now practising at Accra. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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John Mensah Sarbah was born on Friday, 3 June 1864, in Anomabu, in the Fante Confederacy in the Gold Coast. He was the eldest son of John Sarbah (1834-1892), a merchant of Anomabu and Cape Coast and a member of the Legislative Council of the Gold Coast, and his wife Sarah.
Mensah Sarbah was educated at the Cape Coast Wesleyan School (later renamed – by Mensah Sarbah himself – as Mfantsipim School) and then at Taunton School in Somerset, England, matriculating in 1884.
He subsequently entered Lincoln"s Inn in London to train as a barrister, and was called to the English bar in 1887 – the first African from his country to qualify in this way. In 1897, along with J. West. Sey, J. P. Brown and J. East. Casely Hayford, Mensah Sarbah co-founded the Aborigines" Rights Protection Society, which became the main political organisation that led organised and sustained opposition against the colonial government, laying the foundation for Ghanaian independence. In 1903, Sarbah and William Edward Sam promoted an enterprise called the Fanti Public Schools Limited and Sarbah also helped establish the Fanti National Education Fund, which aimed to improve educational facilities in the country and awarded scholarships.
He founded a scholarship at Mfantsipim School and helped pay the salaries of the staff when the school encountered financial difficulties.
In 1963, a residence hall of the University of Ghana was named Mensah Sarbah Hall in his honour for his services to education, with a statue of John Mensah Sarbah is in front of lieutenant Sarbah House at Mfantsipim School is named after him.
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Mensah Sarbah was appointed a member of the Legislative Council in 1901, and was re-appointed in 1906. Members of the hall are known as Vikings as a reference to him who is a true Viking for his country.
