Kwaku Dua II

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Kwaku Dua II. Kumaa (also Kwaku Dwa II. Kumaa) was from April 28, 1884 to June 11, 1884 the

Asantehene (ruler) of the Ashanti Empire in what is today Ghana
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His reign did not last a quarter of a year when he died of smallpox. His sudden death triggered a period of several years of civil war, which only ended in 1888 when his successor Agyeman Prempeh took office.

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