Manhyia Palace Bans Funerals on August 21 for One-Week Observation of Asantehemaa

The Manhyia Palace has announced a ban on all funerals across Asanteman on Thursday, August 21, 2025, as part of the one-week observation for the late Asantehemaa, Nana Konadu Yiadom III.

The directive is in line with tradition, allowing the Asante Kingdom to mourn the Queen, who passed away recently. The one-week observation will be marked with customary rites at the Manhyia Palace.

“Manhyia Palace announces for the information of the general public that there will be a ban on all funerals across Asanteman on Thursday, August 21, 2025, to allow Asantehene and Asanteman to observe the One Week Celebration of Asantehemaa.”

The Queen passed away on August 7, 2025.

About Asantehemaa

Born in 1927 at the Benyaade Shrine in Meredane, a small town in Kwadaso, Kumasi, Nana Konadu Yiadom III was the first daughter of Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem II and Opanin Kofi Fofie. Entrusted to her aunt, Nana Afia Konadu, while still an infant, she grew up in Ashanti New Town, Kumasi, receiving a rich informal education that instilled discipline, cultural knowledge, and life skills.

As a teenager, she underwent traditional puberty rites alongside her niece, Nana Abena Ansa, and later married Opanin Kwame Boateng, a blacksmith from Aduman in Kumasi. She was known for her humility, compassion, and sense of fairness, traits that earned her respect across Asanteman.

In the mid-1990s, a prophecy foretold her future as Queen Mother, a prediction fulfilled when she ascended the Nyarko Kusiamoah and Konadu Yiadom Stool on February 6, 2017, becoming the fourteenth Asantehemaa.

Her reign was marked by advocacy for maternal health, promotion of breastfeeding, and support for hospitals, as well as initiatives to preserve peace and unity in the Kingdom.

Source: Opemsuo Radio