A third now looms. For living side by side with Akan people are people of other ancestries. There are Guan people, for example, whose ancestors migrated to Ghana perhaps a millennium ago. The logic of shared ancestry offers only three possible answers: annihilate them, expel them (along with all the others of separate ancestry), or assimilate them, inventing a story of common ancestry to cover up the problem. All of these “solutions” have been tried in the last couple of hundred years. None of them would be necessary if we were not trying to match states to nations.
