The Asantehene Visits the Civil Rights Museum and FedEx and the Home of Elvis Presley

Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has accepted an invitation from the City of Memphis, Tennessee, USA to attend the 44th edition of the Memphis in May International Festival.

The Overlord of the Ashanti Kingdom will be in Memphis with a contingent of Paramount Chiefs, who owe allegiance to the Golden Stool, queen mothers, princes of the Golden Stool as well as Divisional Chiefs.

He will participate in the five-day program, which will be climaxed with a traditional durbar on Memphis’s historic Beale Street on Sunday, May 8.

Otumfuo Osei Tutu II will arrived in the US on Tuesday, May 3 for the Festival, which is dedicating this year’s edition to the Republic of Ghana.

His Majesty met with high-level city and government officials and business leaders including Visiting the Civil Rights Museum, the headquarters of Federal Express (FedEx), the world’s largest manufacturers of medical robotics, Medtronic, the STAX Museum of American Soul Music, Graceland, and the National Home of the Memphis legend Elvis Presley while in Memphis with the aim of promoting business and investment opportunities between Ghana and the US.

“The City of Memphis honored His Majesty and Ghana’s Ambassador to the United States with a Black Star Black Tie Gala at the Renaissance Convention Center Grand Ballroom on May 6 to celebrate his 72nd birthday,” .

The Asantehene will be the second monarch after Maori Queen in 1991 to participate in the 44-year-old Memphis in May International Festival.