“Kente is a cloth that is woven by the Asante people of Ghana in West Africa. The history of kente weaving extends back more than 400 years. Kente is woven by hand on a narrow wooden loom. The four-inch strips of fabric are then sewn together to make pieces of cloth.

“The word ‘kente’ comes from the word ‘kenten,’ which means basket. The very first kente weavers used raffia, or palm leaf fibers and wove them into a cloth that looked like a basket.