Asantehene's wife recently organised a dinner party for queen mothers of various towns in the Ashanti Region. Otumfuo was ...

Asante queens, young and old, danced vibrantly at a dinner hosted by Lady Julia Osei Tutu, uniting in joy and even dancing ...

Looted artefacts from the Asante kingdom are finally on display in Ghana, 150 years after British colonisers took them. Ghanaians flocked to the Manhyia Palace Museum in Kumasi, the capital of ...

By the 1700's, Osei Tutu had control over all the gold fields. With gold, the Asante could buy the best in modern weaponry ...

But Prempeh’s exile did have a lasting impact on both the Asante kingdom and Seychelles ... the Gold Coast and later an independent Ghana, underwent in the 20th Century. "The exiles had been ...

The Asante kingdom was founded by the great King Osei Tutu in the eighteenth century. His fetish priest was Okomfo Anokye, who unified the Asante states through allegiance to the Golden Stool ...

King Otumfuo Osei Tutu II of the Asante Kingdom in Ghana has expressed his desire to visit Rwanda “at the earliest opportunity.” He made the comments on Friday, April 19 during a courtesy ...

The tree dates back to the Ashanti Kingdom, part of modern-day Ghana. Local people says the tree grew in the spot where renowned priest Komfo Anokye spat a kola nut on the ground in the early 1700s.

"Let’s remain united to bring about peace and development in the kingdom." Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Ghana's Asante king, looks on at the Manhyia Palace in Kumasi, Ghana, on 8 February 2024 during ...

The field outside the royal palace in the Ghanaian city of Kumasi was filled with an exuberant crowd, celebrating the return 100 years ago of an exiled king. Prempeh was the Asante king, or ...