The mystery of the African Priest who stuck a sword in a rock over 500 years and can’t be removed 

Africa is the home of magic, candor traditional worship, and cultural value. She has been however robbed of these magnificence by the negative influence of colonialism and subsequent crestfallen leadership.

Lack of proper documentation, or publicity of it where present has also relegated Africa’s beauty to mere relics of a lost age.

There is one of her magnificence that should be spoken about a lot more often because it is more vivid than the story of King Arthurs pulling out a stuck sword in stone no other could.

In Akwapim, Akwamu kingdom now Ghana, in 1665, a child who would grow up to be known as Okomfo Anokye was born. It’s alleged he got his name from the events that surrounded his birth. He was born with clenched fist containing a gift from the gods in one hand, and short white tail of a cow (Podua) in the other. 

Osei Kogi Tutu became became the king of a small group of Alan forest dwellers in the city of Kumasi known as the Kumaseman state between 1680 and 1695 (the exact date of his reign is not known), Anokye was his closet friend and priest because of his mystical powers.

Together, they defeated their strongest enemies and expanded their kingdom all round. Anokye had good leadership qualities and wouldn’t withdraw from applying his spiritual powers when need be.

He and the king Tutu after defeating dissenting voices, instituted rituals and practices that overtook cultures they considered weak and non-beneficial. Raising their barber highest by establishing.

Of highest on the powers of Anokye were

• His use incantation to defeat the more powerful Denkyira people in the war fought around (1699–1701) his incantations caused desertions within the rank and file of their leaders.
• They were one of the only people that fought off the British in the Western Africa sub-region, gaining victory.
• They United the Ashanti people, establishing their territorial supremacy for all time. They are the foundations of the ancient Ghana empire, out of which inspired Kwame Nkrumah to make the country Ghana.
• He was the greatest sapient of the Asante people and the greatest organizer of human and material resources of his time
• He invented the golden stool, a symbol for the Asante unity, and the mark of legal authority of his friend and king Osei Tutu. The first king if the unified Asante empire.
• he exhibited great power over nature – miraculous cures, fetching water with a basket not spilling any content, redirecting the river in Asante amongst others 

Anokye, placed a sword to its hilt in the middle of the Ashanti region no one has been able to pull out for over 500 years, despite all technological mights employed. He said the dagger can only be removed if the Asante nation is annihilated.

A hospital in Kumasi, built in his honor host the sword site.

He told his people at the age (62-64, in the years 1717-1719) he going to bring back the keys of death, and he never returned because people cried when he didn’t return after a few days against his command.

The Britanica described him as a fetish priest, but he should properly be called a “high priest” of the African tradition. Because in his days, religious worship was what it was.

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