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The family
knows little of Annor’s early life at Apredi. Except, he was at the
Krobo area by the late 1790s.
His story started at Apredi, a village
that was several days of walk from the Krobo area. But, presumably,
it was his reputation as a healer that brought him to Krobo.
He might have
been in his 20s when he arrived, thus his birth date can be
set around (c)1775.
During this period, the Krobo state was
expanding and forming, gaining and extending boundaries on land
acquired in the northwest region because of the power vacuum created
by the collapse of the Akwamus.
The then Paramount chief of the Manya
Krobo state, believed to be Baa Dua Asare (c1800), heard about Annor's reputation as a healer and
brought him from Apredi to Krobo land to help stop an epedemic.
Annor, the traditional healer, priest,
and warrior came to our land for a reason: to help fight a plague.
And, he succeeded.
The fact that the Krobo chief had to
reach out to Aperedi, a land so far away in those days, to bring
this healer in to fight the epidemic bespoke and undergirded
Annor's reputation at the time.
Annor, the Elder, was already a legend
before he arrived.
And the fact that he was given a large
tract of land to settle on as a chief, after his success as a
healer, shows the esteem and appreciation that welcomed him to Krobo
land.
Annor/s frist son, Ayisa, married a
daughter of the Konor.
The
chieftaincy stool at Saisi, his first abode in the Krobo land, exists within
his lineage today.
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