KENTE, is one of Ghana’s best selling cultural products with its history dating as far back as centuries ago. Over the years, the craft has seen many evolutions but the good thing is that, Ghana’s ...

- 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 ...

The 2023 Kente Weaving Expo has been launched in the Volta Regional capital, Ho, with a call on the government to pay more attention to the weaving industry in the country. The launch event, was under ...

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 ...

"T.Y. Kente Weaving Enterprise is a medium scale weaving enterprise located at Agotime Akpokope in the Adaklu-Anyigbe District of the Volta Region of Ghana. " https ...

Mrs Ernestina Naadu Mills, the First Lady, has warned against using under-aged children for Kente weaving. “I am a strong advocate for children to acquire sustainable livelihoods for the future, but ...

Six children aged between five and 11 years trafficked from neigh­bouring Togo are engaged in kente weaving at Godokpe in Ho in the Volta Region of Ghana. The children, who have been engaged in the ...

In our series of letters from African journalists, Ghanaian writer Elizabeth Ohene considers the global popularity of her country's fabric in the wake of it appearing in a Louis Vuitton fashion show.

Dickson Adom (Ph.D.) receives funding from Gower Street Foundation, U.K., and Botanic Gardens International, U.K. He works as a Senior Member in the Department of Educational Innovations in Science ...