Ghana’s iconic Kente cloth has been inscribed onto UNESCO’s Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. This global recognition under the 2003 Convention for Safeguarding ...

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 ...

Marfoh said he didn't remember learning the craft since boys in his village were brought into the trade at an early age, starting to spin cotton around age 6. In Bonwire, kente has traditionally ...

Conan O’Brien is taking his roadshow to Ghana for his eleventh primetime special in four years. The show taped last night for airing September 17 on TBS.

Boahen, Adu. 1975. Ghana: Evolution and Change in the 19 th and 20 th Centuries. London: Longman. Britwum, Akua O. 2009. “The Gendered Dynamics of Production Relations in Ghanaian Coastal Fishing”, ...

According to Asante oral tradition, it originated from Bonwire in the Ashanti Region. With time, some parts of Northern Ghana also produce another kind of Kente which is fast catching up too.

Analysis - 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 ...