Nene Sakite II (born in
Odumase) is the fifth and reigning ''
Konor'', or
paramount chief, of the
Manya Krobo,
enstooled in 1999.
[Daniel Miles McFarland, ''Historical Dictionary of Ghana'', ]Scarecrow Press
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, 1995, p. 120.[Roger Gocking, ''The History of Ghana'', Greenwood Press, 2005, p. 54.] His predecessor was
Azzu Mate Kole II, who ruled Manya Krobo from 1939 until his death in 1990.
There was an
interregnum
An interregnum (plural interregna or interregnums) is a period of discontinuity or "gap" in a government, organization, or social order. Archetypally, it was the period of time between the reign of one monarch and the next (coming from Latin '' ...
in Manya Krobo between 1990 and 1999 due to chieftaincy succession disputes.
In 2015, on the silver jubilee of the death of
Azzu Mate Kole II, the son of Nene Sir
Emmanuel Mate Kole, a memorial lecture on
female education was held in his memory at the Odumase Presbyterian Church at Odumase-Krobo, which was chaired Nene Sakite II on the topic, ''“Oklemekuku Azzu Mate Kole: A great king and a statesman”''.
References
20th-century monarchs in Africa
Ga-Adangbe people
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Living people
Ghanaian Presbyterians
Ghanaian Protestants
Year of birth missing (living people)
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