Osei Tutu Agyeman Prempeh II

{{Short description|Asantehene (Ashanti King)}} {{Infobox royalty | name = The Asantehene Otumfuo Sir Osei Agyeman Prempeh II. KBE | title = Asantehene of Asanteman; Kumasehene of Kumasi | succession = King of the Asante Kingdom | image = File:Nana Otumfuo Agyeman Prempeh II.jpg | caption = Prempeh II in 1935 | reign = 22 June 1931 – 27 May 1970 | coronation = 22 June 1931 | predecessor = Prempeh I | successor = Opoku Ware II | spouse = | issue = Henry K. Prempeh; Lovelace Prempeh | house = Oyoko Dynasty{{Not verified in body|date=May 2024}} | father = | mother = | religion = Anglican | full name = The Asantehene Otumfuo Sir Osei Agyeman Prempeh II, KBE | birth_date = {{circa|1892}}  | birth_place = Kumasi, Kingdom of Ashanti, Gold Coast | death_date = {{death date and age|1970|5|27|1892|df=yes}} | death_place = Kumasi, Ghana }}

'''Prempeh II''' (Otumfuo Sir Osei Tutu Agyeman Prempeh II, KBE, {{circa|1892}} – 27 May 1970),<ref>{{Cite book|last=Kyerematen|first=A. A. Y.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ie9qQgAACAAJ|title=Daasebre Osei Tutu Agyeman Prempeh II Asantehene: A Distinguished Traditional Ruler of Contemporary Ghana|date=1969|publisher=University Press|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |id={{ProQuest|213649071}} |last1=Yarak |first1=Larry |title='The History of Ashanti Kings and the Whole Country Itself' and Other Writings, by Otumfuo, Nana Agyeman Prempeh I |journal=Africa |volume=75 |issue=3 |date=2005 |pages=436–437 |doi=10.3366/afr.2005.75.3.436 }}</ref> was the 14th Asantehene, or king of the Ashanti (Ruler of the Asante), reigning from 22 June 1931 to 27 May 1970.

== Biography ==

Asantehene Prempeh II of the Ashanti was born in 1892 in the capital city called Kumasi. He was four years old when his uncle, Prempeh I (the 13th Asantehene), his maternal grandmother, Queen Nana Yaa Akyaa, and other family members were captured and exiled to the Seychelles Islands by the British in 1896.<ref name=Culture>A. B. Chinbuah, [http://www.ghanaculture.gov.gh/index1.php?linkid=65&archiveid=921&page=1&adate=03/08/2007 "King Otumfuo Nana Osei Tutu Agyeman Prempeh II: He restored the Independence of the Kingdom of Ashanti"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020135126/http://www.ghanaculture.gov.gh/index1.php?linkid=65&archiveid=921&page=1&adate=03%2F08%2F2007 |date=2017-10-20 }}, National Commission on Culture, 3 August 2007.</ref> Prempeh I returned from exile in 1924 and died in May 1931, and Otumfuo Prempeh II was subsequently elected as his successor; however, he was elected as merely ''Kumasihene'' rather than Asantehene.<ref name=Culture /> In 1935, after strenuous efforts on his part, the colonial authorities allowed Prempeh II to assume the title of Asantehene.

In 1949, Prempeh II was instrumental in founding Prempeh College, a prestigious all-boys boarding school in Kumasi, Ashanti.<ref>[http://prempehcollege.edu.gh/about-us/history/ History], Prempeh College.</ref> He also gave a large tract of land for the construction of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), which in 1969 awarded him an honorary degree of Doctor of Science. In October 1969, he was elected as the first President of the National House of Chiefs, and shortly thereafter was appointed to the Council of State.<ref name="manhiyaarch">{{cite web |title=Asante Kings Of The Twentieth Century - Sir Nana Osei Tutu Agyeman Prempeh II (1931 - 1970) |url=http://manhyiaarchives.com/page.php?id=17 |website=Manhiya Archives |access-date=21 August 2019}}</ref>

==See also==

*Ashanti people *Rulers of the Ashanti

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links==

*[https://web.archive.org/web/20121030062600/http://www.ghanatoghana.com/Ghanahomepage/kings-queens-asante Kingdom of Ashanti Kings And Queens Of Asante]

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