Asantehemaa Death: Profile of The Late Nana Konadu Yiadom III Who Died at Age 98
YEN.com.gh looks at the main highlights from the life of Nana Konadu Yiadom III, who passed on August 7
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The queenmother of that Asante kingdom, Nana Konadu Yiadom III, has died at the age of 98 years of age sending the country into mourning.
She was the 14th Asantehemaa and the biological sister of the current Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II.
Source: UGC
The Oyoko Royal Family formally announced her passing to the Asantehene during an emergency meeting of the Asanteman Traditional Council on Monday, August 7, 2025.
About the Asantehemaa
Nana Konadu Yiadom III was born in 1927 at Benyaade Shrine at Merdan, in Kwadaso, Kumasi.
She was born in the days of the restoration of the Asante Confederacy.
The royal was born to Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem II, who was also an Asantehemaa who reigned from 1977 to 2016.
Her father was known as Opanin Kofi Fofie, known popularly as Koofie or Keewuo, a carpenter by profession from Besease near Atimatim in Kumasi.
Nana Konadu Yiadom III's early years
When she was still being breastfed, Nana Konadu Yiadom III was separated from her biological mother and given to her aunt, Nana Afia Konadu, at Ashanti New Town.
She didn't have formal education, but Manhyia said she underwent rigorous informal education, considered just as fundamental.
Nana Konadu Yiadom III underwent puberty rites with her niece, Nana Abena Ansa, in their early teens.
She later married one Opanin Kwame Boateng, a blacksmith from Aduman in Kumasi.
She has been described as religious, kind-hearted, calm, fair and firm, hardworking, very humble, unassuming and accommodating.
In the mid-1990s, Kwaku Firi Bosomfo, the priest of Kwaku Firi, predicted through Baffour Akoto, a Senior Linguist of Asantehene, that the Nanahemaa would become the Asantehemaa one day.
Nana Konadu Yiadom III's charity work
Through her constant generosity in doing God’s work, the Saviour Church named a school after her, Nana Konadu Saviour School.
She has exhibited a high level of equity, justice and fairness, and all cases brought before her have been settled amicably to the satisfaction of both parties involved.
In celebrating her 5th Anniversary as Asantehemaa, she made a huge donation to the mothers at the Mother-Baby Unit, Pediatric Emergency Care Unit and Pediatric Emergency Unit and paid for all the medical bills and expenses for new mothers at the Mother-Baby Unit at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital and Manhyia Government District Hospital.
Nana Konadu Yiadom III, a campaign and established an annual event to encourage mothers to breastfeed their babies.
In line with this, she made a generous donation to the Mother-Baby Unit at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital and Manhyia Government District Hospital.
King Mswati III's kids meet Asantehemaa
Earlier, YEN.com.gh reported that King Mswati III, the royal ruler of Swaziland, now Eswatini, introduced his children to Asantehemaa Nana Konadu Yiadom III.
The entourage from Eswatini knelt and paid homage to Asantehemaa, who was flanked by a host of her queens and royal servants.
The durbar on Thursday, June 26, 2025, to officially mark King Mswati III's arrival in Ghana was one of the late Asantehemaa's last moments in public.
Source: YEN.com.gh
