The Kente Festival is an annual harvest festival celebrated by the chiefs and peoples of

Bonwire Bonwire is a town in Ghana, where the most popular cloth in Africa, popularly known as "Kente", originated. The Kente is worn by the king of the Ashanti Kingdom in Ghana. Bonwire is part of Ejisu-Juaben Municipal district within Ghana's Ashanti ...

in the

Ejisu-Juaben district Ejisu-Juaben Municipal District is a former district that was located in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Originally created as an ordinary district assembly on 10 March 1989 when it was known as Ejisu-Juaben District which was created from the form ...

in the

Ashanti region The Ashanti Region is located in southern part of Ghana and it is the third largest of 16 administrative regions, occupying a total land surface of or 10.2 percent of the total land area of Ghana. In terms of population, however, it is the mo ...

Ghana Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...

. It is usually celebrated in the month of January. Others also claim it is celebrated in July or August. A Kente Festival

Celebrations

It is celebrated to promote and mark the invention of the

Kente Kente ( ak, kente or ''nwetoma''; ee, kete; Dagbani: Chinchini) refers to a Ghanaian textile, made of handwoven cloth, strips of silk and cotton. Historically the fabric was worn in a toga-like fashion by royalty among ethnic groups such as the ...

industry in the town of

. The festival also intends to assert the influence of the

as cloth from

. The chiefs and the inhabitants of

wear Kente clothes and various designs they sewn.

Significance

The festival is commemorated to mark the origin of the Kente cloth in the town of

which was invented over 300 years ago.

References

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