Kente Festival

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The Kente Festival is an annual harvest festival celebrated by the chiefs and peoples of Bonwire in the Ejisu-Juaben district in the Ashanti region of Ghana. [1] [2] [3] [4] It is usually celebrated in the month of January. [5] Others also claim it is celebrated in July or August. [6]

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A Kente Festival

Celebrations

It is celebrated to promote and mark the invention of the Kente industry in the town of Bonwire. [7] [8] [9] The festival also intends to assert the influence of the Kente as cloth from Ghana. [6] The chiefs and the inhabitants of Bonwire wear Kente clothes and various designs they sewn. [1]

Significance

The festival is commemorated to mark the origin of the Kente cloth in the town of Bonwire which was invented over 300 years ago. [1]

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