Still Carved, Still Consecrated, Still In Use

Willis records Ohene Adwa used specifically on cloth and regalia connected to chieftaincy and formal installation, alongside Akofena and Adinkrahene within the corpus's cluster of leadership and state-authority symbols, distinguishing its emphasis on institutional continuity from Akofena's emphasis on the legitimate exercise of coercive force and Kuronti Ne Akwamu's emphasis on distributed, consultative power around the office. He notes actual stools of the type the symbol depicts remain central to living Akan chieftaincy ceremony today, carved and consecrated for individual chiefs and treated with ongoing ritual respect, which places Ohene Adwa among the smaller number of Adinkra symbols whose physical referent is not only historical but a still-active element of contemporary Akan political and religious life.

Willis notes this continuing ceremonial use, alongside the historical weight of instances such as the Golden Stool, gives Ohene Adwa a depth of documented living practice that the corpus's more purely historical or biographically anchored symbols, such as Kwatakye Atiko, do not carry to the same degree. Willis records this living ceremonial use as one of the more thoroughly documented continuities between traditional Akan political practice and the present day.