Word: otumfuo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...voters.“You are always introducing yourself to people who are new,” he says.Reeve’s Friday schedule is packed with both civic and campaign events—a funeral; two visits to senior facilities; a meeting with representatives of Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, king of the Asante people of Ghana; the CCTV interview; and, during the evening, two parties.Earlier this week, he says, he campaigned door-to-door in every unit of three 22-story buildings near Alewife.Leaving the CCTV offices, Reeves notes that two storefronts have blue and yellow...
...racial, ethnic and cultural categorizations, Appiah's' life story appropriately puts just those notions into question. Born in London, he spent his childhood in the West African nation of Ghana. His mother is English, his father a Ghanian lawyer who was influential in his country's independence movement. Otumfuo Nana Opoku Ware II, the King of the Asante tribe, is his uncle, and his maternal grandparents are a titled couple from Gloucestershire...
Unlike his popularly elected host, he will never have to ask, "How'm I doin' ?" Besides, his mellifluous British accent would never be comfortable with such guttural nativisms. But Otumfuo Opoku Ware II, 65, the King of Ghana's Asante people, still got along fine with New York City Mayor Edward Koch, 59. To kick off his first visit to the U.S. since ascending to the "golden stool" of the Asante in 1970, the King last week donned tribal regalia and, with 'Koch happily tagging along, led a ceremonial procession up the steps of the American...
...visitors. At Tamale, muscular, nearly nude warriors in bikini-brief grass skirts performed the End of the Harvest dance. The most spectacular ceremony was the Ashanti durbar laid on in Kumasi before 35,000 people, including some 150 major and minor chiefs. Host for the ritual was the Asantehene, Otumfuo Sir Osei Agyeman Prempeh II, King of Ashanti and the most important chief in all Ghana...
Tasseled Umbrella. Nkrumah has moved more cautiously, but just as effectively, against the nation's No. 1 chieftain, Otumfuo Sir Osei Agyeman Prempeh II, the Asantehene or King of the Ashanti. His rich cocoa-growing and gold-mining territory furnishes the bulk of Ghana's revenue, and in the days before independence his well-stuffed treasury financed the political opposition to Nkrumah. But the Asantehene has lost the support of his young men, who prefer modern politicking to ancient tribal loyalties, and is increasingly worried by governmental investigations into the management of land and property under his control...
| 1 |