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Adanwomase Kente Weavers and Sellers Association

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Adanwomase Kente Weavers and Sellers Association

The Association was formed about seventeen years ago. The main goals of the Association include:

  • Creation of common ideologies about kente Registration of kente designs.
  • Formation of other volunteer groups to boast tourist activities in the town.
  • Providing assistance to members on many bases concerning the kente industry.
  • The Association is also aimed at teaching and making the industry more attractive to the youth.
  • The Association currently has over 45 members of which ten of them are female.

 

Kufuor’s successful administration in the country and internationally was what encouraged them to design the special Kente cloth in his honour as their forefathers had done for Kwame Nkrumah a similar ceremony. ‘Fathia Fata Nkrumah’ fabric has since then been in existence. The Association only accepts people from ADANWOMASE and in kente industry. The Association also consists of individuals who are sometimes registered as companies under the Kwabre District Assembly of Ghana This Association became popular after naming one cloth called Kuffour Apegya Ghana after Forner President John Agyekum Kuffour. About 55 years ago, the Kente Weavers of Ghana, led by the Adanwomase Weavers Association, honoured the first President of Ghana, Osagyefo Dr.Kwame Nkrumah with a Kente cloth by name, ‘Fathia Fata Nkrumah’ in been recognised as one of the most beautiful and intricate designs in the Kente world. Explaining the rationale behind naming the new Kente design for President Kufuor, the Chairman of the Adanwomase
Weavers Association, Nana Osei Tutu, said people of Adanwomase have had a long tradition of making Kente for important personalities and as such President.

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