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5 crafts keeping Ghana’s past alive

1 KENTE CLOTH

he Akan people of the Ashanti Region have been dying silk using ground bark or leaves since the 1600s. They weave the thread on looms into geometric designs to create cloth, the colours of which symbolise different things (blue, for example, means harmony). Once reserved for royalty – who wore it

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