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Nana Amuah-Afenyi VI (born 1953〔), known informally as King Peggy,〔 is the nana (chief) of the town of Tantum〔 (or Otuam〔〔), in the Mfantsiman Municipal District, Ghana. Born Peggielene Bartels in Ghana and a naturalized citizen of the United States, she has worked as a secretary at the Embassy of Ghana in Washington, D.C. since the 1970s. Following the death of her uncle, Tantum's former chief, in 2008, she was chosen to replace him, through a series of traditional rituals.〔 Since chosen the first female chief of her village,〔 she has spent several weeks each year in Ghana,〔 on the anniversary of her coronation.〔 She plans to become a full-time chief after her retirement from the embassy, at which time she will oversee a family-owned estate and occupy an eight-bedroom palace. Bartels is a member of the Afro-European Bartels family, whose ancestor Cornelius Ludewich Bartels was Governor-General of the Dutch Gold Coast between 1798 and 1804, and whose son Carel Hendrik Bartels was the most prominent biracial slave trader on the Gold Coast in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. Tantum is a coastal fishing village in Mfantsiman Municipal District.〔 It is located at . (It may be part of the Ekumfi District, which was formed from part of the Mfantseman District in 2012.) ==Book== She and writer Eleanor Herman have co-written ''King Peggy'' (ISBN 978-0-385-53432-1), published in 2012 by Doubleday.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Official website of ''King Peggy'' the Biography )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peggielene Bartels」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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