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The Asantehene is the title for the monarch of the historical Ashanti Empire as well as the ceremonial ruler of the Ashanti people today. The Ashanti royal house traces its line to the Oyoko (an Abusua, or "clan") Abohyen Dynasty of Nana Twum and the Oyoko Dynasty of Osei Tutu Opemsoo, who formed the Empire of Ashanti in 1701 and was crowned Asantehene (King of all Asante). [1]
Today, the Asante Kingdom survives as a constitutionally protected, sub-national traditional state [13] in union with the Republic of Ghana. The current king of the Asante kingdom is Otumfuo Osei Tutu II Asantehene. The Asante kingdom is the home to Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana's only natural lake.
These were then followed by the investiture of Bukali II as substantive King of the Kingdom of Dagbon. [25] In December 2019, Bukali II paid a courtesy call on Otumfuo Osei Tutu at the Manhyia Palace , to express his gratitude for the role the Asante king played in the peace process.
The name Asante "warlike" is traditionally asserted by scholars to derive from the 1670s as the Asante went from being a tributary state to a centralized hierarchical kingdom. [4] [6] Asantehene Osei Tutu I, military leader and head of the Asante Oyoko clan, founded the Asante Empire.
But the Asantehene did not enjoy absolute royal rule; several checks curbed any abuse of power. All Asante authorities including the Asantehene, pledged allegiance to the Golden stool. [18] [19] [20] The Asantehene was the chief judge, chief administrator and commander-in-chief of the Asante army. [2]
Asantehene Prempeh II of the Ashanti was born in 1892 in the capital city called Kumasi.He was four years old when his uncle, Prempeh I (the 13th Asantehene), his maternal grandmother, Queen Nana Yaa Akyaa, and other family members were captured and exiled to the Seychelles Islands by the British in 1896. [3]
"The Ashanti Kingdom". Archived 2007-08-20 at the Wayback Machine "Osei Tutu 1680-1717 King of Asante". Black History Timeline. "The Precolonial Period", in La Verle Berry, ed., Ghana: A Country Study. Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress, 1994. "The Asantehene | Otumfuo Nana Osei Tutu II", Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly.
Osei Bonsu (born 1779 [11] – 21 January 1824) [12] [13] also known as Osei Tutu Kwame [8] was the Asantehene (King of the Ashanti). [14] He reigned either from 1800 to 1824 or from 1804 to 1824.