His reign was marred by uprisings, which would eventually lead to his suicide in 1803 to prevent an Ashanti civil war.
Osei Kwame Panyin was born at some point between 1762 and 1765, to a woman named Akyaama, and Safo Kantanka, the King of Mampong.
He led an army to the Ashanti capital, Kumasi, and the northern provinces rose up in support of Panyin.
[2] He fled his captors, and briefly found romance in Ama Sewaa, although he would be accused of undertaking an incestuous relationship with her.
When Yaadom gathered the majority of the Ashanti clans against Panyin in 1803, he committed suicide rather than trigger a civil war.