The Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council (ARCC) has announced the inaugural "Ashanti Kente Week", scheduled to take place from Monday, 23rd March to Tuesday, 31st.

By any serious design standard, Ghana has underutilised one of its greatest economic and cultural assets: Kente.

Ghana is taking a bold step in making an unprecedented move to protect “Kente”, its centuries-old handwoven fabric, by establishing stronger intellectual property rights and geographical indication ...

Over the years, Ghanaians have increasingly embraced locally made fabrics, a trend that gained prominence when Ghana’s first ...

Joselyn Dumas celebrated Ghana's 69th Independence Day in a stunning beaded Kente gown, reminding us why the fabric — now ...

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 ...

A new exhibit at Cal State Dominguez Hills will explore how one textile became a symbol of unity among African cultures. “Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity” will feature ...

Q: I’ve seen fashion designers promoting clothing based on kente cloth from Ghana. Is it insensitive for non-Ghanaians to wear it? —Lilia Morris | New York City Colorful kente cloth—made of handwoven ...

- 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 ...