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Otuam. Coordinates: 5.221°N 0.808°W. Otuam (also Tantum) is a town in Ekumfi District, Central Region, Ghana. Nana Amuah-Afenyi VI (born Peggielene Bartels in 1953 [1] ), known informally as King Peggy, [2] is the reigning chief of a clan (Ebriadze Abusua) of the town. She is the head of one of the 7 major clans that form the Otuam township.
Jan 31, 2013 · Peggielene Bartels is a Ghanaian-born American citizen who became the first female king of Otuam, a fishing village of about 7,000 people in Ghana, in 2008. For some 30 years, Bartels has been ...
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Feb 19, 2012 · In her new book, Peggielene Bartels describes going from secretary at the U.S. Embassy to king of a fishing village in Ghana. Dividing her time between Otuam and Washington, D.C., she straddles ...
Jan 25, 2023 · Peggielene Bartels was made the first female King of Otuam, a small fishing coastal community in the West African nation of Ghana.
Dec 27, 2012 · Nearly five years ago, Bartels was startled out of bed by a 4 a.m. phone call. When the person on the other end informed her that she’d just been named King of Otuam, a village of 7,000 on Ghana ...
Top right: Main Street, Otuam, 2009. Bottom left: Otuam's palace after Peggy's restoration. Bottom right: Before restoration. About three weeks later, when Peggy arrived at the airport in Accra, tall, charming Kwame Lumpopo was waiting for her; after piling her bags into his old SUV, they set off on the 60-mile drive to Otuam.
