Hold a piece of kente cloth between your fingers, and the first thing you notice is likely the bright, saturated shades of yellow, red, blue, and green. You might observe several rows of patterns, ...

This DIY project is simple yet rewarding, allowing you to incorporate cultural artistry into your home decor. With just a few ...

For too long, we have treated kente as ceremonial fabric instead of what it truly is, a sophisticated design language. A visual system. A coded textile architecture developed over centuries by master ...

By Deladem Nanevie, GNA Ashaiman, March 10, GNA — Kente cloth and beads have long been symbols of Ghanaian culture, telling stories of many ethnic groups and traditions. In recent times, artisans have ...

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 cloth has been a cloth of royalty. Its hand made woven process is what makes it rare and expensive. We wear it, we love it, but most of us have little clue of what the symbols and patterns mean.

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 ...

Mr Simon Osei-Mensah, the Ashanti Regional Minister, has called on chiefs and other stakeholders in the nation’s Kente-weaving industry to strategize and re-brand the fabric as an international ...

Some wear it as a badge of honor, others because the distinctive colors and geometric prints are just plain good looking. Then there are those for whom kente fills both bills. Kente – say KEHN-tay – ...