Jacob Wilson Sey, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jacob Wilson Sey

Gold Coast artisan, farmer, philanthropist and nationalist

Date of Birth: 10-Mar-1832

Place of Birth: Biriwa, Central Region, Sierra Leone

Date of Death: 22-May-1902

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Jacob Kwaw Wilson Sey (10 March 1832 – 22 May 1902) was a colonial era Fante artisan, farmer, philanthropist, nationalist and the first recorded indigenous multi-millionaire on the Gold Coast, now Ghana.
He played a major role in the Aborigines' Rights Protection Society (ARPS), founded to oppose the 1896 Crown Lands Bill and the 1897 Lands Bill that threatened the traditional land tenure system and stipulated that all unused lands be controlled by the British colonial government.
The society was the nineteenth century precursor which laid the foundation for the mid-twentieth century "ideological warfare" pushed by Gold Coast intelligentsia and the independence movement.
Some academic scholars regard him as the "first real architect and financier towards Ghana's independence" and the ARPS as "the first attempt to institutionalize nationalist sentiment in the then Gold Coast."