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 [...]

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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.  [...]

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Adanwomase

Day nine of the Ghana road trip:  searching for the lesser known Kente village. Nkoranza and Techiman aren’t very far from Kumasi, and Adanwomase, the kente weaving village, is so close to Kumasi that you could almost consider it a suburb.  After our yam shopping spree, it wasn’t even lunch time, so there was more [...]

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SWOPA Gift Shop

The SWOPA gift shop.  No one else was there the day I visited. The pottery was gorgeous, as were the paintings. I love baskets!!!  But I kept thinking, how am I going to carry everything back with me? The paintings!  So beautiful!  I wish I had bought this one. At last, I found something I [...]

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The People of Mognoori Village

The people of Mognoori village were very friendly. The children were more shy than the exuberant kids of the south. I can’t tell you how happy I was to be here, capturing scenes of everyday life in Mognoori village and not offending anyone in the process. The woman is making gari. Gari is made from [...]

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