Each square of the fabric is made on an ... acquired it after being posted to the West Africa area during war time in the 1940s. It's a great example of African craftsmanship.

The Kente Celebration has a deep institutional history and is an important experience for our multicultural students. The kente cloth is a traditional African cloth – the colors and design hold a ...

By examining the work of designers of African descent, a new exhibition in Manhattan finds common threads and, more ...

Virgil Abloh's kente-inspired ... 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 ...

Getty Images For the Democrats kente cloth is about African heritage "The significance of the kente cloth is our African heritage and for those of you without that heritage who are acting in ...

Emmanual 'Ektwoii' Okudom is an artist who hails from Ghana and encourages the West Rand community to embrace its culture.

The African fashion scene is a powerhouse of creativity, with designers who masterfully blend fabric and texture. Leading the charge is Aristide Loua, the visionary behind Kente Gentlemen, founded in ...

There they were exchanged for iron, guns, gunpowder, mirrors, knives, cloth, and beads brought by boat from Europe. When Europeans arrived along the West African coast, slavery already existed on ...

Nworah, Kenneth D. 1971. The Aborigines’ Protection Society, 1889–1909: A Pressure-group in Colonial Policy. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, Vol. 5, Issue ...

Shares in West African Resources fell by 20 per cent on Monday to $1.34, off the back of jurisdictional uncertainty in Burkina Faso. Subscribe to read this article. Register or login now and receive ...

West African Resources says it is monitoring the situation after the leader of Burkina Faso’s military junta flagged a gold mining crackdown. The African nation’s military leader Ibrahim ...