In his native Ghana, Dr. Kwaku Ofori-Ansa always knew that kente cloth had a special significance. “It was always around, but not something to be seen on a daily basis. It used to be for very ...

Le kente Ashanti est un tissu qui incarne l'héritage culturel et l'histoire du peuple ashanti. Les Ashantis sont un groupe ethnique majeur au Ghana dont l'histoire remonte à plusieurs siècles.

Kente cloth and the vibrant prints based on its patterns are everywhere: in black churches as narrow columns of colorful fabric cascading over the shoulders of chorus members; on crowded urban ...

Colorful kente cloth—made of handwoven silk and cotton—has been part of Ghanaian tradition for hundreds of years. The colors and patterns in any given piece tell a story.

They looked like the colours from a kente cloth! However, they were so luxuriantly brilliant that I realised I had never seen such colours worn by any person before. Encased in a motif of yellow ...

UNESCO has added Ghana’s Kente cloth to its Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The famous material comes from the Asante and Ewe people of Ghana and dates back to ...

Chocolate has a knack for using traditional motifs, including kente, in unlikely ways, such as piping on suits. “It should always be with a twist. Culture is dynamic. It’s always changing.

Jasmine Massey, left, is adorned with her Kente stole by advisor Tamara Zellars Buck during the inaugural "Donning of the Kente" ceremony Monday, Dec. 9, 2019, at Rust Center for Media, which ...

TaMara Howard shares her quilting projects featuring Kente textile designs. TaMara Howard, owner of Folk Quilts, describes the centuries-old history of the colorful and symbolic Ghanaian textile ...

Congressional Democrats wore stoles made of Kente cloth during a moment of silence for George Floyd, drawing criticism from observers who felt they made the traditional African textile into a ...