Otomfuo Opoku Ware II

▪ 2000

Jacob Matthew Poku; Barima Kwaku Adusei 

      Ghanaian barrister who in 1970 became the 15th Asantehene, or king of the Ashanti people, and thereafter ruled over the everyday spiritual and cultural life of the ancient kingdom (b. Nov. 30, 1919, Kumasi, Ghana—d. Feb. 26, 1999, Kumasi).

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