eminsang played a prominent role in colonial affairs in the last years of dutch rule on the gold coast. when in 1868 the fante confederacy tried to take elmina in the aftermath of the redistribution of dutch and british forts on the gold coast, eminsang was sent by the elmina government to the netherlands to plead the case for elmina with minister of the colonies engelbertus de waal. after meeting with eminsang, de waal proceeded in replacing governor george pieter willem boers with the experienced former governor cornelis nagtglas, who as a government commissioner was tasked with finding a solution for the conflict with the fante.