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James Hutton Brew
James Hutton Brew was a Gold Coast lawyer and journalist of Fante and British descent. He was one of the Western-educated leaders of the Fante Confederacy in the early 1870s and helped draft its constitution. He later founded some of the first African-owned newspapers in the Gold Coast, including the Gold Coast Times in 1874, and criticised British colonial rule before settling in England.
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