Professor Tom McCaskie, a renowned expert in Asante History at the Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham, UK, has noted that the Sagrenti War marked a significant milestone in British military history.
It was the first war in which a substantial number of British press, he said, accompanied the troops with the explicit purpose of spreading propaganda.
He did so at the launch of a book on the History of Asanteman.
After more than five decades since his passing, a book on the History of Asanteman, authored by Otumfuo Sir Osei Agyeman Prempeh II, has been launched in Kumasi.
Edited by Prof. Tom McCastie, a distinguished professor of Asante History at the Centre of West African Studies of the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, the book serves as an autobiography of the 14th Asantehene, who reigned from 1931 to 1970.
The book launch was part of the activities commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Sagrenti War and the silver jubilee of Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II.