BBC Africa Live: Updates from the continent Wax print: Africa's pride or colonial legacy? Why were US Democrats wearing Ghana’s kente cloth? The West African nation has reported more than 20,000 ...

The recent inscription of Kente fabric, among other African items and practices into Unesco’s Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity is a milestone in the global ...

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 ...