He is the convener of the Rights of Nature Ghana Movement. Asante kente is a cloth that embodies the cultural heritage and history of the Asante people. The Asantes are a major ethnic group in ...

My study found that the historical origins of Asante kente in the town of Bonwire were associated with a spider weaving its web. Locally referred to as Ananse, the spider was observed by two ...

The Asante kingdom was founded by the great King Osei Tutu in the eighteenth century. His fetish priest was Okomfo Anokye, who unified the Asante states through allegiance to the Golden Stool ...

A mosque in Mali. From the 1950s many African countries won their independence. Today, the ancient kingdom of Benin is part of Nigeria and Asante is in Ghana.

Kente is a prestigious royal cloth of Ghana's Asante people, part of their historical and cultural heritage. But there's a debate about where it originated: the Bonwire community or the Adanwomase ...