I thank HarmattanProductions for this insightful film clip and hope Ghanaians (and beyond) will start supporting the weavers back home!!!! We mustn’t allow this art form to die…. I personally no longer buy African clothe /textiles from Holland…
I don’t blame the folks featured in the above film clips…..but I believe a day is coming when people of Ghanaian origin will have to visit foreign museums to find out what the Kente clothe and Adinkra symbols were!!!! Because we don’t value our national treasures the way others do, -our majestic/historic/ceremonial textiles are slowly loosing their value….and becoming common place -and its driving me nuts, plus some of our own -who’s only knowledge of the Kente clothe and Adinkra symbols are limited to what their sweet mother told/taught them -are now educating the West …thus -I’m guessing were in trouble!!!
I’m wondering……do we have Ghanaians specialist with real knowledge in all things Kente & Adinkra symbols -who can teach the world about said national treasure, or will we have to listen to second-hand Europe-centric, Adinkra-came-from-Germany-in-the-19th-Century-BS????
I’m sick of the west writing Africa [Africans] off as a place that only existed after they supposedly discovered it… -I believe Ghana (Gold coast or whatever it was called before it was christened the Gold Coast) has been kicking around since timing memorial and whether my people settled there in the 15th or 16th century after a perilous journey from Egypt -or old Ghana or not …..-my kinfolk have always had ways of communicating -be it drums or what have you etc etc -and the Adinkra symbols -is one of them…
I suggest that we starting writing/documenting the history of the Kente clothe & Adinkra symbols -now, and take real ownership of these treasures…. because the West in all matters African ….has its own agenda!!!!!! I’m exhausted -so I’m going to lie down… xoxo
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