Fante Confederacy

c. 1650 – 1873 CE · about 223 years approximate dates

The Fante Confederacy was an alliance of small kingdoms and city-states on the coast of present-day Ghana, centred on Mankessim. It emerged as a regional force in the late 17th century and became a constitutional confederation in 1868. It came under the British Gold Coast colony in the 1870s.