Beauty Queen Hotel

From Adanwomase, it was only 30 to 45 minutes to the Beauty Queen Hotel in Kumasi where Stanley puts up his visitors.  The length of time it took was due more to the traffic congestion than the distance. One of the reasons he likes it is because it’s not in the city center and he [...]

Read Full Post »

Behind the Adanwomase Visitor’s Center

After watching the kente weavers, on the way back to the Land Rover I noticed some carvings made on the trunk of a cut down tree near the Visitor Center. I wondered if the wood carver who worked on the tree was from some other part of Africa. The reason it crossed my mind is [...]

Read Full Post »

Kente Weaving in Adanwomase

We returned to the kente weaving workshop where there were maybe a dozen weavers at work. Most of the remaining weavers were in the village at the funeral. As is typical in most Ghanian villages, there’s no electricity here. Kente is made in narrow strips about four inches wide and about six feet in length. [...]

Read Full Post »

Kente Fever

I definitely had kente fever. A few steps away after buying my first cloth, another store beckons. Oh, wow! My rationalization mechanism was working overtime:  what am I going to do with it? I don’t sew, and I won’t cut it! My advice:  don’t even bother trying to rationalize it. Just buy it if you [...]

Read Full Post »

Buying Kente Cloth

When buying Kente cloth, it’s useful to know that it’s packaged in two ways:  men’s kente and women’s kente.  Men wear kente like a toga, so if you buy a man’s kente cloth, it will be a much larger piece of material, like roughly the size of a bedspread, and correspondingly will be more expensive.  [...]

Read Full Post »