Asantehemaa Funeral: Manhyia Sets September 18 As Date for Night of Silence, Curfew
- All residents of Asanteman will be dealing with a curfew and a ban on noise-making on the evening of September 18, 2025
- Asantehemaa Nana Konadu Yiadom III’s funeral has been scheduled for September 14 to 18 at the Manhyia Palace
- Nana Konadu Yiadom III died at 98 years of age on August 7, 2025, with a formal announcement made on August 11
All residents of Asanteman are required to remain indoors on the evening of September 18, 2025.
This is the time the late Asantehemaa, Nana Konadu Yiadom III, will be laid to rest at the royal mausoleum at Breman in Kumasi.
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Kumasi and other parts of the Asante Kingdom are also supposed to fall silent in accordance with Asante customs and traditions.
The interment will conclude the burial rites for the Asantehemaa.
During the announcement made at the Manhyia Palace on August 21, 2025, a senior linguist of the Asantehene, Baffour Kantankyakyi, said it is expected that there should be no human movement during the night.
“Asanteman will go completely silent. No shops will be opened. There will be no travel or human movement. The remains of our revered Asantehemaa will be conveyed to Bantama during the night. It is important that no one is met on the way, as doing so will be at the person's own peril. Late at night, the remains will be moved in solemn procession to the final resting place in Breman.”
Regarding the burial service, there will be a memorial service at Dwabrem.
The one-week observance for the late Asantehemaa was held on Thursday, August 21, 2025.
About the Asantehemaa's death
The Asantehemaa, Nana Konadu Yiadom III, died at 98 years of age on August 7, 2025.
She was the 14th Asantehemaa and the biological sister of the current Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II.
She marked her eighth year as the Queen Mother of the Asante Kingdom in February 2025.
The Oyoko Family confirmed the passing of the second most powerful person in Asanteman to the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II at an emergency Asanteman Traditional Council meeting on August 11.
Nana Konadu Yiadom III was born in 1927 at Benyaade Shrine at Merdan, a small town located at Kwadaso, Kumasi, in the days of the restoration of the Asante Confederacy.
She was born to Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem II, Asantehemaa, who reigned from 1977 to 2016.
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Her father was known as Opanin Kofi Fofie, known popularly as Koofie or Keewuo, a carpenter by profession from Besease near Atimatim in Kumasi.
Otumfuo gets emotional after Asantehemaa's death
YEN.com.gh previously reported that Otumfuo Osei Tutu II was emotional after the Asantehemaa's demise was announced on Monday, August 11, 2025.
In a video from a meeting of the Asanteman Council at the Manhyia Palace, the Asantehene fought back tears as he mourned his beloved late sister.
Whilst announcing the news of his sister's death, Otumfuo looked overwhelmed with emotion and saddened at the passing.
Proofreading by Samuel Gitonga, copy editor at YEN.com.gh.
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