ASANTE NATION UNDER NANA KWAKU DUA ll (1884).

ABAKƆSƐM BRƐ: ASANTE NATION UNDER NANA KWAKU DUA II (1884).
(12th Occupant of the Golden Stool)

*Disorder in Asante*
The destoolment of Otumfoɔ Osei Mensa Bonsu did not bring peace to the kingdom because his supporters wanted him back on the stool. Nana Kofi Kaakari too wanted to be enstooled again. Really, he too was liked by the war party in Kumase.

They contended that he had twice fought the British. It was unfortunate that the nation was defeated in 1874. If the Nation had superior rifles things would have been different. For this reason they wanted a brave king like him and since he was alive they wanted him re-enstooled.

The third contestant to the stool was their nephew, Kwaku Dua, the son of their sister Yaa Akyaa. Kwaku Dua was the person the late Otumfoɔ Kwaku Dua l nominated to be his successor but he was too young to be enstooled when his grand uncle passed away.

As such, he was favoured by most of the people and was therefore enstooled in April 1884.

*ASANTEHENE NANA KWAKU DUA ll.

He was enstooled in April 1884 and died in June 11, 1884, from smallpox; apparently from an English Army General who had visited him earlier in Kumase.
Kra Kofi........APEM ASE NHYE DA........

Kofi Agyeman was enstooled at the end of April 1884 as Asantehene Kwaku Dua II. He died FORTY days later...., and is referred to as ADADUANANHENE in Asante history. Adaduanan is FORTY days in the Asante Calendar.

In late May... early June 1884, a British delegation visited Kumase, and the accompanying photo was taken. The Stool sitting beside him represents his reign, an affirmation of his period as Asantehene. The Stool is his sacred personal Stool which signifies his time or reign as Asantehene.

Following his enstoolment as Asantehene in 1935, Otumfuo Osei Agyeman Prempeh II created an AFENA or Sword in memory of his beloved uncle, Kwaku Dua II. He named the AFENA... KRA KOFI. 

He then had Royal Goldsmiths cast a bunch of palm nut in gold and embossed it on the AFENA KRA KOFI, and added the accolade.... Apem ase Nhye Da (determination, like a thousand people/ideas cannot perish; they will replenish and be reinforced...)......, that the memory of his uncle Kwaku Dua II, will NEVER perish, (nor will Oyoko Royal Family), notwithstanding his sudden death... which prevented him from translating his great ideas to fruition.

Credit: Sankofa Asante.

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