{"id":291684,"date":"2017-02-06T16:31:33","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T16:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=291684"},"modified":"2017-02-06T16:31:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T16:31:33","slug":"otumfuo-picks-83-year-old-sister-as-new-asantehemaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=291684","title":{"rendered":"Otumfuo picks 83-year old sister as new Asantehemaa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has chosen his 83-year old sister, Nana Ama Konadu, as the next Asantehemaa, Queen mother of the Asante Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>This was revealed when the new Queen-mother was shown to the Gyaase clan in her palace.<\/p>\n<p>The Asantehene appointed the new Queenmother in consultation with the Head of the royal family.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_291688\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-291688\" style=\"width: 807px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Asantehemaa-Nana-Ama-Konadu-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-291688\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Asantehemaa-Nana-Ama-Konadu-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Nana Ama Konadu\" width=\"807\" height=\"515\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-291688\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nana Ama Konadu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ama Konadu will be succeeding the late Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem II, who died in November 2016, and was buried in January 2017.<\/p>\n<p>She is the first daughter of the late queen mother.<\/p>\n<p>Ama Konadu, together with the Asantehene, will plan the final funeral rites of the late Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem.<\/p>\n<p>She will appear at the Asanteman Council before Otumfuo announces her as the new Queen Mother\u00a0at a durbar.<\/p>\n<p>Her stool name is yet to be announced.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Lauretta Timah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has chosen his 83-year old sister, Nana Ama Konadu, as the next Asantehemaa, Queen mother of the Asante Kingdom. This was revealed when the new Queen-mother was shown to the Gyaase clan in her palace. The Asantehene appointed the new Queenmother in consultation with the Head of the royal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[1070,3,2007,3789,3790],"class_list":["post-291684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-asantehene","tag-ghana-news","tag-manhyia","tag-nana-ama-konadu","tag-new-asantehemaa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}