 The Ashanti Region of Ghana will not see any form of formal education until 1831 when two Asante Prince were sent to Cape Coast Castle school to be educated at the expense of Captain George Maclean, the then governor of the Gold Coast.They were Owusu Kwantabisa, the son of the Asantehene, Osei Yao (1824-34), and Owusu Ansah, son of his predecessor, Osei Bonsu (1800-24).The two princes were later sent to England for further studies, for three years.