As a visual spectacle, it rivals anything in The Lord of the Rings or King Kong, precisely because you know you're seeing a human being in action.

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"The only promise I have for you in the interim is that as an Ashanti I won't do anything to soil our image, " he told a reception organised in his honour by the King of Ashanti, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II.

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