As the European trade in the 1800s introduced the Akan to synthetically dyed yarns, kente designs became more colorful. |
Nigerians wear the boubou, Ghanaians the kente, former president Mobutu Sese Seko of the former Zaire made the safari suit his own. |
Most contemporary kente cloths reflect the ongoing experimentation with colors. |
But several weeks later, after he sent out a large shipment of Ghanaian kente cloth, the recipient refused to pay. |
Wearing a red dress, hot pink headwrap, kente cloth, a silk fringed shawl, and an armful of bangles, she is fully sexual, a celebration of African American womanhood. |
Many African Americans decorate their high school and college graduation robes with scarves of kente cloth produced by Asante weavers. |