Kente patterns embody Adinkra symbols, conveying deep philosophical meanings—such as the Fatia Fata Nkrumah (Fathia deserves Nkrumah) or Adwinasa (All motifs are used)—making the fabric a vital ...

We in Ghana have absolute confidence in our fashion sense. We also happen to believe that the most beautiful and most dramatic fabric on this Earth is the kente, which is, of course, Ghanaian. The ...

The people and traditional authorities of Bonwire, the historic home of Ghana’s iconic Kente cloth, have honoured Amma ...

There are moments in fashion that shift the global conversation when fabric becomes more than fashion, and a weave becomes a world symbol. This month, Ghana gave the world one of those moments. Kente, ...

Ghanaian textiles evoke powerful emotions. They also symbolize some of the most fundamental human ideals and cultural values. They can cut across ethnic divisions and instill a sense of national pride ...

- Perched in the center of a long, narrow loom, Francis Marfoh paddled two foot-treadles and worked school-bus yellow thread into a kente cloth pattern last week, onlookers around him marveling. This ...

E.L, the Afrobeats singer and rapper, is picky about his kente. A fabric of the Asante people, one of Ghana’s largest ethnic groups, it has been handmade from silk and cotton on looms with painstaking ...

Kente is a prestigious royal cloth of Ghana's Asante people, part of their historical and cultural heritage. But there's a debate about where it originated: the Bonwire community or the Adanwomase ...

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Idris Elba looked mighty fine in his kente cloth drip while attending the first Akwasidae Festival of the year in Ghana Feb. 5. The British actor, 50, donned a kente draping that slightly revealed ...

When US Democrats in Congress proposed legislation to reform the police following weeks of protests over the death of African American George Floyd at the hands of a white officer, commenters on ...

Virgil Abloh's kente-inspired designs formed part of Louis Vuitton's Paris fashion show in January In our series of letters from African journalists, Ghanaian writer Elizabeth Ohene considers the ...