Opoku Ware I was the 2nd Asantehene of Oyoko heritage, who ruled the Ashanti Empire. Between 1718 and 1722, Opoku Ware became Asantehene during a period of civil disorder after the death of the 1st Asanthene. From 1720 to 1721, Opoku established his power.
Throughout his reign, Opoku carried out a series of campaigns that expanded the Ashanti Empire across Ghana and eastern Ivory Coast. In domestic affairs, the Asantehene supported industry and manufacturing. He also carried out state reforms that include the creation of new offices for the administration of the state. At the latter part of his reign, Opoku Ware initiated a reform to reduce the power of the chiefs who administered the provinces of the empire. This reform led to a conspiracy that was repressed by the Asantehene. Opoku Ware died in 1750, unable to complete the reform. He was succeeded by Kusi Obodom.
OpokuWareI was the 2nd Asantehene of Oyoko heritage, who ruled the Ashanti Empire. Between 1718 and 1722, OpokuWare became Asantehene during a period...
Otumfuo OpokuWare II (born Jacob Matthew Poku; 30 November 1919 – 26 February 1999) was the 15th Asantehene. He succeeded his uncle Osei Tutu Agyeman...
to 1764. He was elected as the successor to OpokuWareI as opposed to the nominee suggested by OpokuWareI. Obodom's reign was inaugurated with a civil...
houses. Between 1700 and 1715, Osei Tutu I conquered the neighboring states of Twifo, Wassa and Aowin. OpokuWareI who succeeded Osei Tutu, led the integration...
Ashanti Empire. At the end of the fourth marriage, she gave birth to OpokuWareI, the second Asantehene. She headed the House of Ohemma (women rulers)...
the reign of Osei Kofi Tutu I, who were inspired by the web designs of a spider. In the 18th century, Asantehene OpokuWareI was documented by Danish agents...
areas had the option of joining the empire or becoming tributary states. OpokuWareI, Osei Tutu's successor, extended the borders. Because of the long history...
succession to the 17th-century founder of the Ashanti Empire, Otumfuo Osei Tutu I. He is also the Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and...
Aowin King Ebirimoro invaded Kumasi and sacked the capital. Asantehene OpokuWareI and his army were away from the capital in battlefield when news reached...
akrafena is the Mponponsuo (meaning "responsibility"), which belonged to OpokuWare II. It has survived to the present day because it is still occasionally...
Osei Kofi Tutu I (c. 1660 – c. 1717) was one of the founders of the Ashanti Empire, assisted by Okomfo Anokye, his chief priest and a distance relative...
them access to the coastal trade with Europeans, especially the Dutch. OpokuWareI (1720–1745) engaged in further expansion, adding other southern Akan...
up to the time of Nana Prempeh I (in 1900) to cross the Pra to the south. After his death, his nephew King OpokuWareI became the king of the Ashanti...
Kosiamoa, sister of Dakon, the ill-fated successor of OpokuWareI, and niece of Osei Kofi Tutu I, a formidable king who was the co-founder of the Ashanti...
one of the great oath of the Ashantis, "Meka Yawada" (I swear by Thursday), a vow Otumfuo OpokuWare [(Katakyie), the mighty one] made to avenge the death...
capital of the Ashanti Region. The first palace is now a museum. Otumfuor OpokuWare II built the new palace, which is close to the old one and is used by...
Aowin King Ebirimoro invaded Kumasi and sacked the capital. Asantehene OpokuWareI was able to "beat back" this invasion. European sources in the late 19th...
1884) was the tenth King of the Ashanti Empire, and grandnephew of Kwaku Dua I, whose sudden death in April 1867 sparked internal strife about the succession...
original country of these people is in Ghana, where the conflicts between OpokuWareI of Ashanti and the Anyi made them migrate to Ivory Coast. Amalaman Anoh...
Asmah, John Kobina (1999-03-19). "Burial Rites of the Late Otumfuo OpokuWareII". JSTOR. Clothing And Fashion In Ghanaian Culture: A Case Study Among...
On 18 March 1837, Kwaku Dua Panin signed an agreement with King William I of the Netherlands to provide Ashanti recruits, a thousand of whom would join...
minister at Elmina, where he married Antonia Ginderdros. Ashanti king OpokuWareI demanded that Capitein teach his children, which he did. Capitein died...
Ashanti influence were won during the reign of OpokuWareI (died 1750), successor to Osei Kofi Tutu I. By the 1820s, successive rulers had extended Ashanti...
them access to the coastal trade with Europeans, especially the Dutch. OpokuWareI (1720–1745) engaged in further expansion, adding other southern Akan...
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