User:Kwesi Pakba

Victoria Park - Cape Coast, Ghana Jacob Sey co-founded and then became the first president of Aborigines' Rights Protection Society (ARPS), formed to campaign and voice local opposition to the 1897 Lands Bill being considered by the British colonial government.[1][2][3][4][6] Prominent members of the group were the upper-class, Western-educated, wealthy elites who were comfortable with their indigenous roots, such as J. W. de Graft-Johnson, J. P. Brown, J. E. Casely Hayford, and John Mensah Sarbah.[1][2][3][4][6] On behalf of chiefs and people of the country, he led a delegation of the Society, consisting of Thomas Freeman together with Cape Coast merchants Edward Jones and George Hughes, to petition Queen Victoria to abrogate the Bill.[1][2][3][4] The team also returned with a gift of the Queen's bust that was later inaugurated at Cape Coast’s Victoria Park by Princess Anne, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria during an official visit in 1925.[1][2][3][4]