Sentence examples for the paramount chief from inspiring English sources

The paramount chief of the national capital, Kumasi, was the chief of the confederation.

Each hamlet had a headman, or "great commoner," selected by the paramount chief of the district.

I asked after the Paramount Chief, and was informed that he was still alive, but was away.

When he was only 12 his father died and Mandela went to live with the paramount chief himself.

The paramount chief, the yagbumwura, is also selected in rotation from the chiefs of the five eligible divisions.

But the Paramount chief, fingers ever seeming to be slipping from the edge, actually provides a spectacle.

Journalist Umaru Fofana tells how the paramount chiefs, who represent all 149 chiefdoms, insisted that a ban on FGM be removed from the Child Rights Act in 2007.

To Machar's right are the paramount chiefs with their sashes; to his left are soldiers and bodyguards squatting with brand-new PK machine guns and braids of sparkling brass rounds.

The law was only removed following the death of the reigning paramount chief, which allowed Dawai and Levula to become Fiji's first professional rugby league players.

The centre had a party for him, which the local paramount chief attended, and the staff gave him a green army bike.

Three of the respondents (two men) were representatives in the Acholi paramount Chief's Cultural Committee (Ker Kwaro Acholi), and were considered conversant with the culture across the whole Acholi sub-region.