African textile patterns are a colorful and important aspect of the continent's culture. These textiles, famous for their ...

the cloth attracts people from all over the world. Kente is so popular in West Africa and around the world that buyers from Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, and more travel to Ghana to buy it for resale.

Kente is a prestigious royal cloth of Ghana's Asante people ... The Conversation Africa spoke to African art and culture researcher Dickson Adom about the origins of this world famous textile.

Check out modern dress styles in Ghana. The article shares images of some of the latest Kente, Ankara, Smock, Agbada, and Kaftan dress designs Ghanaian women wear.

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 ...

Memphis Depay never misses a chance to honour his Ghanaian roots. The Corinthians forward, who also plays for the Netherlands ...

Within Ghana, kente designs are used for specific ... such as graduations and funerals, as long as the cloth itself was handwoven in Africa. When designers make abstract patterns based on the ...

The recent inscription of Kente fabric, among other African items and practices into ... of silk and cotton fabric from the Akan tribe in Ghana. It was common in the ancient Ashanti Kingdom ...

The Kente Celebration will take place on Saturday, April 5, 2025 in the Corey Union Function Room. Check in starts at 4 p.m. and the celebration will begin at 5 p.m. The Kente Celebration symbolizes ...

The popular view that it is a generally African cloth is flawed ... considered the father of Ghanaian traditional music, composed a song titled Asante Bonwire Kente (I have not seen anything ...