Ewe Cloth with Kwame Boateng

[@martindzomley-mensah9913]

There was no Ghana before Ewes and Ashanti migrations to the area. Thanks for the knowledge.

[@adolphakpaglo401]

Stop lying please please KETE CAME from AGBOZUME period

[@nathanekbotchway4314]

your are right bro

[@hebrewtheblackman]

False history! Kwane is either lying or he is simply uninformed about the history of Eʋe Kete. There was nothing like Asante prior to 1700’s. Eʋes were weaving long before Asantes. That’s why the oldest Kente cloths are Eʋe kete. And they are museum pieces today. The oldest Kete cloths in possession of the Germans is an Eʋe kete cloth from a king in the kingdom of Alada, Benin in 1620. At that time, Asante didn’t even exist.

[@Evan-x6j]

Banded loincloth weaving is practiced throughout West Africa, from the Wolofs of Senegal to the Yorubas of Nigeria. Only the patterns are different. So the question is, why do the Akan and the Ewe have the same weaving patterns (at least in the 21st century)? The answer is clear, as the Ewe weavers themselves reveal that they abandoned their patterns to weave Asantevor, which were more attractive and sold better. The kente as we know it today, with its patterns, is therefore Asante. Ewe in search of originality should reappropriate the original Ewe patterns, which are much closer to those of the Yoruba, with whom they share the same cultural area.

[@Evan-x6j]

It is not a matter of knowing who has known weaving with the other, this is impossible to date because the 2 ethnic groups Akan and Yoruba to which Asante and Ewe belong have known weaving for a long time. The question is to know why the Asante and the Ewe have the same patterns today.