- Perched in the center of a long, narrow loom, Francis Marfoh paddled two foot-treadles and worked school-bus yellow thread into a kente cloth pattern last week, onlookers around him marveling. This ...

Ghanaian filmmaker and Kente ambassador Amma Prempeh, in partnership with Fredericksburg, Virginia-based nonprofit, ...

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 ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- A visit to the Children's Museum of Richmond is more than a fun space for children - it's also an opportunity for the whole family to play and learn together. Kendall Bruffy is a play ...

Kente cloth, the vibrant woven fabric originating from the Ashanti, Akan, and Ewe people of Ghana, has long symbolized wealth, royalty, and tribal identity. Over time, its cultural significance has ...

The best metaphors come as naturally as sunrise; they aren’t forced or contrived. When you discover that kente cloth — real kente cloth, woven by hand, not the machine-made version — is the same both ...

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Weavers of traditional Kente cloth at Bonwire in the Ashanti Region are prevailing on the government to provide them with a dedicated working space and a local thread factory. Their requests come as ...

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 ...