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• Accranie 1 month ago

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  @The University Of Gh/Institute Of African Studys Should Endeavour & Respond To Our Message/ Requesting For A Personnel To Be Allocated To Us(Uncover Gh) To Provide Us With Educative Input/ Regarding Gh Socio/Cultural Issues/ It Will Help Our Magazine Team To Adequately Inform The Public

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• john 1 month ago

  You people should stop this nonsense of twisting anything asantes have done. What is Kete? when did kete start and which history book has this thing called kete?lets stop this envy.It is called kente and its comes from Bonwir ...
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  You people should stop this nonsense of twisting anything asantes have done. What is Kete? when did kete start and which history book has this thing called kete?lets stop this envy.It is called kente and its comes from Bonwire.

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• REALLY? 1 month ago

  Stop the fiction of the ananse story that the spider and spider-web inspired kente that began in Bonwire. Hogwash. Koffie and the Koffie family, a family of master weavers in Bonwire are Ewes and carriers of a the ancient Ewe ...
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  Stop the fiction of the ananse story that the spider and spider-web inspired kente that began in Bonwire. Hogwash. Koffie and the Koffie family, a family of master weavers in Bonwire are Ewes and carriers of a the ancient Ewe weaving tradition popularly known as kente in Ghana and the African Diaspora. Across the various communities of the Ewe ethnic group in Ghana, Togo, Republic of Benin and in western part of Nigeria, they call it KETE for a specific reason rooted in time-tested tradition and how the culture and language function. That is what Kete is and has always been, kete adulterated as kente.
  
  Ewe language is replete with words and names derived from processes and products as exemplified by "kete" derived from to OPEN the warp, KE in Ewe and throw a bobbin of weft through the warp and the pressed to tighten, TE in Ewe. That process is repeated over and over in intricate, measured but also with exacting innovation in the hundreds thousands laboriously as a beautiful fabric emerges named after the process, KETE.
  
  Here is the process:The warp is the set of yarns or other things stretched in place on a loom before the weft is introduced during the weaving process. Warp means "that across which the woof is thrown." It has nothing to do with Ananse, the spider, or a song, Krokro ni kro, the sound of bobbin thrown across the warp. Ewe name many products after processes employed in producing them and Kete is an ancient example. You assume all things are written in books when the Ewe language embodies an indelible culture and history. Put you thinking-cup on and reason logically as against bombastic self-aggrandizement.
  
  Take for example food names and processes of cooking them. Borbor ( Ga - yoke garri) or cooked beans got its name from cooking to soften the beans, soft,"borbor" in Ewe. Gali in Ewe or Garri in Yoruba derived the name from the process of roasting grated cassava. In roasting the grated cassava in wide almost-flat but curved metal (GA in Ewe) receptacles, there is the tendency for the grated cassava as it is roasted into powder to stick (LI in Ewe) to the metal, so the end product, roasted cassava powder or grit is called "GALI."
  
  Get your facts and history straight and not twisted, and do not conjure ananse stories and claim the Ewe are envious of the Asante. They have no need for that and have been in what is now Ghana and in Togo, Dahomey and next to the Yoruba before Asante came into being in 1600s. Asantes did not grow cotton to turn in the fabric, but Ewe-Fon and Yoruba farmed cotton and developed weaving and KETE among the Ewe is an example. Get over it.

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