Position of the Chief in the Modern Political System of Ashanti

In 1969 K.A. Busia became Prime Minister of Ghana. While he was in Britain for a medical check-up, the army under Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong overthrew his government on 13 January 1972. Busia remained in exile in England and returned to Oxford University, where he died from a heart attack in August 1978.[3]

• 1. The Constitutional Aspect of Chiefship 2. The Religious Aspect of Chiefship 3. Chiefship and Land Tenure 4. Administration and Justice 5. The Ashanti Union 6. British Rule and the Chief: Social Change 7. British Rule and the Chief: Local Government 8. The Ashanti Conderacy Council 9. The Chief Today