Ghana's First Lady Her Excellency Lordina Mahama looked splendid in a perfectly fit green kente gown and cornrow braids ...

Ghana made history as Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo swore in the country's first female Vice President prof Jane Naana ...

which included a satirical song about adding kente cloth to your outfit. The reaction in Ghana has not been as noticeable, reports the BBC's Thomas Naadi from the Ghanaian capital, Accra.

The finely woven material has become the defining symbol of Ghana and Ghanaians and, indeed, of Africa, and for Black people in general. Time was when the kente was a strictly royal cloth reserved ...

The Kente Celebration will take place on Saturday, April 5, 2025 in the Corey Union Function Room. Check in starts at 4 p.m. and the celebration will begin at 5 p.m. The Kente Celebration symbolizes ...

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.

Ghana also presented a big Kente Cloth to the UN in New York and UNESCO in Paris. In contemporary times the wearing of Kente is democratized. Kente is often seen at graduation ceremonies ...