Bonwire (Ash), Oct 11, GNA - Nana Bobie Ansah II, Bonwirehene, on Monday called on Ghanaians to discard the notion that kente weaving is a tedious enterprise and it is difficult to learn. He said the ...

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 ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) 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 ...

Accra — Talking about Bonwire Kente brings to mind the renowned Ghanaian musicologist, Ephraim Amu, whose composition, "Akyinkyinakyinkyin ama mahu nneema" literally meaning, "traveling has exposed me ...

The New Force presidential candidate Nana Kwame Bediako, popularly known as Cheddar, has visited the Bonwire Kente weaving Centre in the Ashanti Region as part of his campaign tour for the December ...

Bonwire (Ash), Dec. 17, GNA - The annual "Bonwire Kente Fair" is underway at Bonwire, in the Ejisu-Juaben municipality, but exhibitors are already complaining about poor patronage. They blame this on ...

Mr. Akwasi Osei-Agyei, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, has appealed to the people of Bonwire to initiate strategies that would help to diversify the uses of the kente cloth in order to ...

There is no where in our history where Ewes were ever credited for Kente . Not in Ghana 39;s history and not even their ...

Feminist Africa, Vol. 4, No. 1, African Women Workers in a Changing World (2023), pp. 153-178 (26 pages) Asante weaving traditions have survived relatively unchanged for more than 300 years. Yet the ...

- 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 ...