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The King of the Asante Kingdom, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II will hold a durbar for Commonwealth Parliamentarians on Tuesday, October 3, 2023 at the Manhyia Palace. The event will take place at 10 am, the Palace has communicated. It will be the occupant of the Golden Stool’s first public appearance after his return from the United Kingdom over the weekend. The Durbar comes as Ghana has been selected as the host country for the 66th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference (CPC). It […]
The King of the Asante Kingdom, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, will return to Ghana after spending twenty days in the United Kingdom (UK). He is scheduled to arrive in Ghana on Saturday, September 30, 2023. He is expected to be welcomed at the Kumasi Airport by some traditional rulers and other government officials, as has been the customary practice. Otumfuo Osei Tutu II departed for the UK on September 10, 2023. As part of the official visit, he delivered a […]
The impending seventh Awukudae of the year will be held in the United Kingdom (UK) by the King of the Asante Kingdom, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II. It will be the first Asante festival to be marked outside the country this year by the Occupant of the Golden Stool. The festival will be held in Kingswood, a suburb in the South Gloucestershire district of Gloucestershire in southwestern England. Otumfuo will sit in state at noon to receive homage as he does […]
The Principal and Vice Chancellor of St Andrews University in Scotland, Professor Dame Sally Mapstone DBE FRSE, is among the first to receive a public invitation to the celebration of the Silver Jubilee of the King of the Asante Kingdom, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II. The event is slated for April 2024 and invitations have begun reaching destinations for the celebration of the remarkable and exceptional reign of the occupant of the Golden Stool. His Majesty extended an invitation to the […]
A collaboration between the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and St Andrews University appears imminent following commitments by the leadership of the two institutions. This was on Saturday, September 16, 2023, during a visit by Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II to the official residence of the Principal and Vice Chancellor of St Andrews University in Scotland in the United Kingdom (UK). His Majesty- the Chancellor of the KNUST in Ghana- was accompanied by the Chairman of the […]
Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has mapped a connection between the sudden wave of unconstitutional changes in government in Africa and democracy- the continent’s inherited system of government. “In the first two decades of political emancipation, a spate of military coups rocked the Continent and took away the first generation of leaders of the immediate post-independence era. Having gone through the experiences that followed, the Continent concluded that its fate lay in the orbit of democratic governance and so it […]
The King of the Asante Kingdom, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has admitted to the existence of constraints in the way of traditional rulers when it comes to the governance of Ghana. Despite being accorded the utmost reverence a king of his calibre deserves, he indicates that the political system and structures of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana, give no window for him nor any other traditional ruler in the country to get involved in critical decision-making on the country. According […]
The Monarch of the Asante Kingdom, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II believes Africa’s admission onto the Group of 20 (G20) underscores the regional bloc’s essence which can no longer be overlooked by the West and other parts of the world. Group of 20 is an intergovernmental forum comprising 19 sovereign countries, the European Union (EU), and now the African Union (AU). Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the recent G20 summit in Delhi announced the admission of the AU on X […]
Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has proffered the traditional system as the desirable form of government for Africa. Drawing the line between the political system and that of the traditional system in his keynote address at the St Andrew Africa Summit in Scotland on September 16 2023, he said as the former hinders synergy, the latter embraces it to make way for development. “Indeed, there are many who now believe our problems require the pulling together of all available talent […]
Otumfuo Osei Tutu II says he finds peace amidst the sinking boat of Africa just because he is confident the continent will bounce back to the path of development and a stable economy when it finally realizes its true identity. He believes once the people on the continent refuse to continue languishing in the shadowy identity bestowed on them by the Europeans, its “bright” future will be discovered. The King of the Asante Kingdom has therefore urged the world not […]
