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Fabrics


Kente

Kente (Akan: kente or nwetoma; Ewe: 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 Ashanti and Ewe. Learn Learn more .....



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Paintings

Contemporary African Art

Contemporary African art is commonly understood to be art made by artists in Africa and the African diaspora in the post-independence era. However, there are about as many understandings of contemporary African art as there are curators, scholars and artists working in that field. All three terms of this "wide-reaching non-category. Learn more .....