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Following sentimental moments that accompanied the celebration of Emancipation Day on Tuesday and subsequent visits to some sites in Port of Spain on Wednesday morning, a time for relaxation finally came for His Majesty Otumfuo Osei Tutu II. The occupant of the Golden Stool since the beginning of his five-day working visit to Trinidad and Tobago admitted to a “heavy heart” after having a feel of the separation and enslavement the people of African origin were subjected to. Together with […]
A handwritten message by Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II is on display in a fort in Trinidad and Tobago. The message was written by the King after he visited Fort George located in St James in the region of Diego Martin on August 2, 2023. The fort formerly known as La Vigie and built in 1804 in Trinidad got entwined with the Asante kingdom when a son of the 10th King of the West African-based Kingdom, Kofi Nti, designed and […]
His Majesty Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has expressed his pride in the life-long legacy left behind in St James in the region of Diego Martin in Trinidad by a native of the Asante Kingdom, Kofi Nti who was later known as William Kofi Nti. The legacy lies in a signal station standing in Fort George. The King of the Asante Kingdom visited the place on Wednesday, August 2, 2023, together with some chiefs from his kingdom including Nana Otuo Siriboe […]
A looming danger to the existence of African youth and brains years after the end of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade has received a spotlight for immediate redress. Attention was drawn by Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the occupant of the Golden Stool during the Emancipation Day Celebration in Trinidad and Tobago on August 1, 2023. In a speech at the Emancipation Day Celebration in Trinidad and Tobago on Tuesday, the Ghanaian royalty urged world leaders not to ignore what he termed […]
The overlord of the Asante Kingdom, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has urged the people of Trinidad and Tobago to set a pace that reflects the values and heritage of Africa- their continent of descent by resisting violence. “Here in Trinidad and other sister islands in the Caribbean, we have an upsurge of needless violence often fueled by drugs. I cannot pretend to know all the reasons or the answers but I am sure it reflects a degree of despair that […]
Otumfuo Osei Tutu II posits that Africa and the Caribbeans are not free after all with the myriad of challenges they are confronted with years after their emancipation from slavery by the West. He indicates that emancipation in wallowing abject poverty by citizens, dependency on former slave masters and racial abuse does not qualify as true emancipation. “What’s emancipation when every government in Africa is still struggling against severe odds to lift their people from grounding poverty? What’s emancipation when […]
To erase mediocrity and inferiority complex from the descendants of the victims of slavery and colonialism, the King of the Asante Kingdom, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, suggests that African and Caribbean governments must target the educational sector. In his speech on Emancipation Day in Trinidad and Tobago on August 1, 2023, he said the curriculum must be altered to include the “glorious” history the continent of Africa carried in the pre-colonial and slavery era. “I invite our governments to […]
The King of the Asante kingdom, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II wants racial abuse and racial discrimination to be characterized as a crime against humanity through a new universal declaration by world leaders. He believes racism qualifies as a crime against humanity which has been defined as acts that include the degradation or humiliation of human beings. Delivering a speech on the Emancipation Day celebration in Trinidad and Tobago on Tuesday, August 1, 2023, His Majesty called on world leaders to […]
The Monarch of the Asante Kingdom, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II was the guest of honour at the second celebration marking the Emancipation Day in Trinidad and Tobago on Tuesday, August 1, 2023. This was after he had attended the Emancipation Day procession at the Treasury Building in Port of Spain organized by the Emancipation Support Committee earlier in the morning. All these events marked the freedom of enslaved African mid-1800s. At Queen’s Park, Otumfuo was captured in his glowing kente […]
A Memorandum of Understanding between the Caribbean’s University of West Indies (UWI) and University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT) and Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) is probable. An interest in the collaboration was openly declared by the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr the Hon. Keith Rowley on Tuesday, August 1, 2023, during the Emancipation Day Procession at the Treasury Building in Port of Spain, the country’s capital. This follows a state visit by the […]
