Kente cloth is believed to have been produced as early as 1000 B.C. among the Akan and Ewe peoples of Western African in modern-day Ghana and Togo, according to the African American Intellectual ...

A kente cloth from my late grandfather, in the design called Aberewa Bene (meaning “wise old lady”), has hung in my parents’ living room for decades. (Courtesy of Kweku Embil) (Courtesy of ...

February is Black History Month and here's a timely art exhibit, opening next week at galeria GOBA, that celebrates black history. Artist Gloria Aziza Lawyer's paintings "are a movement of shades ...

More likely it will be known as the Kente Cloth Bill. The lawmakers draped themselves in kente cloth stoles for the public spectacle of presenting their reform handiwork to their constituents ...

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 ...

LGBTQ+ activist Moud Goba will be honored with the 2023 BET International Global Good Award. The award is BET International’s recognition of public figures who use their platform for social ...

Residents of Taraba State on Tuesday staged a solidarity march around Jalingo in support of Chief David Sabo Kente’s governorship ambition in 2027. Speaking with Tribune Online during the walk ...

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 ...

Goba, who previously played the role from 2015 – 2016 and intermittently from 2018 - 2023, succeeds Gugwana Dlamini, who will play her final performance as “Rafiki” on September 10 in ...

Q: I’ve seen fashion designers promoting clothing based on kente cloth from Ghana. Is it insensitive for non-Ghanaians to wear it? —Lilia Morris | New York City Colorful kente cloth—made of ...

The members, dressed in West African kente cloth to protest Trump after reports he called some African nations "shithole countries," sat stone-faced and unmoved. “Unemployment claims have ...