Kente Cloth - Fabric of royalty

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• ALLOW 10 years ago

  KENTE origionated from the WISE MEN from the EAST. VOLTA REGION ALL THE WAY.

  KENTE origionated from the WISE MEN from the EAST. VOLTA REGION ALL THE WAY.

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• Lyn 10 years ago

  How is it from the Volta region? And how come all of the names are in Twi and not Ewe?

  How is it from the Volta region? And how come all of the names are in Twi and not Ewe?

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• Abrewa Nana 10 years ago

  @Allow u're lost. Kente was found by Papa Yaw n Agya Ameyaw, 2best frnds from Bonwire in de Ashanti region. They were goin to farm one day n dey saw a spider, weavin its web, dey stood n watched quietly as de spider did its t ...
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  @Allow u're lost. Kente was found by Papa Yaw n Agya Ameyaw, 2best frnds from Bonwire in de Ashanti region. They were goin to farm one day n dey saw a spider, weavin its web, dey stood n watched quietly as de spider did its tin in a series of patterns. When these 2 frnds got home, dey made looms and decided 2 try it n dat was how Kente came abt.

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• ALLOW 10 years ago

  My friend, your story is too sweet to be true.Giving names to kente cloth paterns in your language or dialect does not mean that you discovered kente. We are talking of the brain work that went in to inventing the Kente cloth ...
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  My friend, your story is too sweet to be true.Giving names to kente cloth paterns in your language or dialect does not mean that you discovered kente. We are talking of the brain work that went in to inventing the Kente cloth. During the Ashanti wars,while the Ashantis were being driven away from the great Volta Region, they managed to abduct some of the Kente weavers from the southern part of the volt Region to Bonwire in the Ashanti Region. Kente weaving therefore started with the Ewes teaching our bush brothers the act of Kente weavining. Unlike in the Volta Region where the weaving of Kente is wide spread in the South with even JHS girls and old ladies doing the weaving.Apart from that, the Ashantis of old were busy with their wars and had no time come out with any original artistic invention of their own.Another point is , in those days you need to plant cotton and then extract the thread for the kente weaving from the cotton, meanwhile you don't grow cotton in a forest zone, which is the domain of Ashantis. So,please, let's accept the true facts about the origion of Kente and stop the wishful thinking. Facts are sacred.

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• Donodooo 10 years ago

  These kussi shoot eaters

  These kussi shoot eaters

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• Lyn 10 years ago

  And is this factual evidence? Where is the timeline? If it started with the Ewes like you stated, how come most websites say that Kente is from the Akan people?
  I did a Google search and it came up saying "Ashanti Kente Clo ...
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  And is this factual evidence? Where is the timeline? If it started with the Ewes like you stated, how come most websites say that Kente is from the Akan people?
  I did a Google search and it came up saying "Ashanti Kente Cloth".

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• Lyn 10 years ago

  What's the point of saying all that if you don't have facts?

  What's the point of saying all that if you don't have facts?

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