He established himself as one of the important personalities on the Ghanaian popular music scene from the mid-1970s and ...

We in Ghana have absolute confidence in our fashion sense. We also happen to believe that the most beautiful and most dramatic fabric on this Earth is the kente, which is, of course, Ghanaian.

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 ...

It is the most popular and best known of all African textiles. Originally, royalty exclusively wore kente but since Ghana’s independence from Britain in 1957 kente has become a symbol of national ...

Amma Prempeh, who is currently Ghana’s Kente Ambassador, also has ties with the Asantehene, as she is a descendant of the Asantehene Otumfuo Agyeman Prempeh I.

Specifically, Kente is a type of silk and cotton fabric from the Akan tribe in Ghana. It was common in the ancient Ashanti Kingdom and was commonly woven by the Akans in the Ivory Coast [Côte d ...