Osei Bonsu | king of Asante empire | Britannica

…of hostility, the Asante king Osei Bonsu conquered the Fante confederacy (1806–24) and gained direct access to the coast. After his death Asante power declined, and in 1831 the British administrator of Cape Coast, George Maclean, negotiated a treaty providing for Fante independence and Asante use of trade routes to…

1764–77), Osei Kwame (1777–1801), and Osei Bonsu (c. 1801–24) established a strong centralized state, with an efficient, merit-based bureaucracy and a fine system of communications.