Prempeh II (Otumfuo Nana Sir Osei Tutu Agyeman Prempeh II,

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, – 27 May 1970), was the 14th

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, 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

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. He was four years old when his uncle,

Prempeh I Prempeh I (Otumfuo Nana Prempeh I; 18 December 1870 – 12 May 1931) was the thirteenth king ruler of the Ashanti Empire and the Oyoko Abohyen Dynasty. King Prempeh I ruled from March 26, 1888 until his death in 1931, and fought an Ashanti war ...

(the 13th Asantehene), his maternal grandmother, Queen Nana Yaa Akyaa, and other family members were captured and exiled to the

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by the British in 1896.A. B. Chinbuah
"King Otumfuo Nana Osei Tutu Agyeman Prempeh II: He restored the Independence of the Kingdom of Ashanti"
, National Commission on Culture, 3 August 2007. 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. 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

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, a prestigious all-boys boarding school in Kumasi, Ashanti.History
Prempeh College. He also gave a large tract of land for the construction of the

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(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

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, and shortly thereafter was appointed to the

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