![]() ![]() ![]() Nana Yaa immediately went off to sleep, but Quey told James to stay and talk with the men. After a few days of travel, they stopped in a village to stay with a man named David whom Quey had met while studying in England. ![]() James held a gun and thought about whether his parents cared for each other at all, knowing their marriage was based on politics from the beginning. On the way to Kumasi, Quey and Nana Yaa bickered. ![]() Effia, James's grandmother, stayed home with his younger siblings. James, his mother, and his father set off for Kumasi. James said that they should go, and his father agreed that it would be a sin not to. Quey told James that his mother wanted to attend the funeral, even though it was highly dangerous. The white man told James that his mother's father has been killed as an act of retribution the Asantes thought the white people killed their king to get back at them for the death of Governor MacCarthy. Quey soon approached with a white man and summoned James to come with him. James, the son of Quey and Nana Yaa, told the children that the British would come after the Fantes next, but that they were safe because his family is royal. Children sang and danced with joy at the news: the Asantes had killed Governor Charles MacCarthy and put his head on a stick to show their noncompliance with British authority. ![]()
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