The occupant of the Golden Stool, His Majesty Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has admired and hailed the insight and foresight with which the great Kingdom in West Africa was founded and has remained resilient over the years.
He observes that the wisdom and hard work that went into its establishment accounts for its continuous existence and relevance even as part of Ghana.
This wisdom by the fore-bearers came at a time when formal education was alien to them and therefore deemed it appropriate to acknowledge them during his lecture at the British Museum in London in the United Kingdom on July 19, 2024.
“The convergence of these objectives within the same epoch in time, I suggest deserves historical acknowledgement. The power of the alphabet which is writing and reading had not yet penetrated the forest zone and none of the chiefs gathered together had received any form of formal education which would have influenced their thinking.
“It therefore speaks to their innate wisdom and creativity in embarking upon this exercise of nation building and yet the union state they created with the monarch at the apex and the Golden Stool as the unifying emblem has endured through all the changing times to this day in our own reign. It has been adaptable to the political evolution of our time without losing its essence.”
Source: Manhyia Palace
