Odeefuo Boa Amponsem III information

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{Odeefuo Boa Amponsem III^[1] (11 November 1923 – December 2016), born Michael Kwame Mensah and later John Kwame Amofa Appiah, was a member of the Agona royalist clan. The firstborn and only son of Kwasi Apeagyei and Abena Tweneboa, he was popularly called Kwame Mensah.

Kwame attended elementary school in Dunkwa-on-Offin, finishing in 1948, and secondary school at St Augustine’s College in Cape Coast, finishing in 1952. As a holder of the Senior Cambridge School Certificate he taught at the Dunkwa Catholic Senior High School in 1953. He worked with Gold Coast Railways in 1954 after acquiring technical training at Railway Technical Training School at Takoradi. John Kwame Amofa Appiah was enstooled on 11 February 1955 and named as Odeefuo Boa Amposem III.^[1] After the installation he went to Lincoln University, Pennsylvania to gain Diploma in Public Administration..

He completed his education in 1957 and resumed his traditional duty as "Denkyirahene" ruler of the Denkyira state^[1] in the latter part of 1957 till his passing in 2016. He was buried in April 2022.