An overview of Kokofuhemaa Osagyefo Kisiwaa Mmua Baayie II’s background

Following four days of customary funeral ceremonies, the late Asantehemaa Nana Konadu Yiadom III was laid to rest on the evening of Thursday, September 19, 2025.

It is currently anticipated that Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the Asantehene, will select a replacement for the deceased Konadu Yiadom III.

The Asantehene and the queen mother will plan the late Nana Ama Konadu Yiadom III’s last funeral ceremonies within a year following the coronation of a new queen mother.

Kokofuhemaa Osagyefo Kissiwa Baayie II is a member of the Oyoko royal clan, just as the Asantenene and the late Asantehemaa.

With the title Osagyefo, she is Asanteman’s paramount monarch.

Christiana Adu Gyamfi is Osagyefo Kissiwa Baayie II’s private name.

She reportedly worked as a professional nurse in the US state of North Carolina.

She went to Cape Coast’s Aggrey Memorial SHS.

Kokofuhemaa Osagyefo Kisiwaa Mmua Baayie II, the regent of the Asantehemaa stool, made an appearance during the Asantehemaa doteyie in a war chant in a video that went viral.

After eight years in power, the late Nana Konadu Yiadom III passed away at the age of 91.

After Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the Asantehene, she was the second most powerful person in Asanteman.

On Monday, August 11, 2025, the Asanteman Traditional Council held an emergency meeting and then declared her death.

According to reports, the Asantehemaa passed at sunrise on August 7, 2025.

The late Asantehemaa’s biography

On February 6, 2017, the late Nana Konadu Yiadom III, also known as Asantehemaa, was crowned the Ashanti Kingdom’s fourteenth Queen Mother.

In 2016, at the age of 109, she succeeded her mother, Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem II, who ruled for 39 years.

During the Asante Confederacy’s restoration in 1927, she was born in Benyaade Shrine in Merdan, a little village near Kwadaso, Kumasi.

Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II’s eldest sister, Nana Konadu Yiadom III, also called Nana Panin, was born to Nana Afia Kobi and Opanin Kofi Fofie.

Despite other qualified relatives, she was selected as the traditional successor following the death of her mother.

Her aunt reared the Asantehemaa in Kumasi. Despite having no official education, she obtained extensive informal training that gave her the knowledge equivalent to a conventional education.

Nana Konadu Yiadom III, a Saviour Church member, married Kwame Boateng, a blacksmith.

In her capacity as Asantehemaa, Nana Konadu Yiadom III counsels the Asantehene, upholds Ashanti customs, and advocates for women’s rights, healthcare, and education.

In order to settle disputes related to culture and religion, she also convenes court twice a week.

The Asantehemaa is traditionally considered the Otumfuo’s mother.

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