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. The ...

Why Ghana Must Protect Its Cultural Inventors The story of Kente is not just a tale of artistry mdash;it is a blueprint of ...

- 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 ...

Then, September 30, 2025, came. At the La-Palm Royal Beach Hotel in Accra, among Ghanaian officials, Kente artisans, musical ...

Kente, the centuries-old handwoven cloth, has formally earned global recognition and protection after the country secured its registration under the United Nations Geographical Indications (GI) framew ...

When a group of Democratic legislators donned kente cloth at the unveiling of legislation aimed at police brutality, critics weighed in. Here's a... On June 8, a small group of Democratic lawmakers ...

The best metaphors come as naturally as sunrise; they aren’t forced or contrived. When you discover that kente cloth — real kente cloth, woven by hand, not the machine-made version — is the same both ...

Over the last few years, Louis Vuitton has increasingly turned its lens toward West African visual culture, mining its vibrant aesthetics to inform some of the house’s most talked-about collections ...

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 ...

Ghana's ‘Kente Culture Story Documentary Film’, projecting the importance of Kente to Ghanaians and Black Africans has been celebrated on the world stage. Showcasing Ghana's rich cultural heritage, ...

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.