 the only holy prophet of God who prayed for a golden stool to descend from heaven. Akonfo anochi of the Ashanti kingdom in present-day Ghana is the only holy prophet of God in recorded history to have prayed for a solid 24 karat golden stool to descend from heaven in a cloud of white dust and landed on the lap of the Ashanti king Ose Tutu in the late 1600s. This divine and miraculous spectacle happened on a Friday afternoon during a grand Durbar of kings, queens, and thousands of their subjects in Kumasi, the capital of the Ashanti kingdom. The golden stool is the royal and divine throne of kings of the Ashanti people and the ultimate symbol of unity and power in the Ashanti kingdom. The sacred golden stool is occasionally displayed during major Ashanti festivals.