Origin disputed. The making, use and evaluation of Ghanaian textiles

Kraamer, Malika

doi:10.4000/aaa.1316

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“…They only suggest that weaving possibly originated independently in the two areas of Ashanti and Ewe in Ghana. This finding validates the view of Kraamer [36] who indicated that it is neither the Asante nor the Ewe who taught the other group how to weave.…”

Section: The Development Of Kete Weaving As a Vocation In The Agortime Traditional Areasupporting

confidence: 87%

Socio-Cultural and Economic Importance of Kete Weaving in Agortime Traditional Area, Ghana

Wemegah¹,

Danso²,

Adom

2021

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Aims: The study investigated the socio-cultural and economic importance of Ewe Kete cloth to the people. It aimed at finding out how the Kete weaving developed as a vocation in the Agortime traditional area, the socio-cultural and economic significance of Kete weaving to the people and how the Kete weaving was incorporated into the teaching and learning processes in the various educational institutions in the Agortime traditional area. Study Design: The study employed the quantitative approach using descriptive cross-sectional survey design. Place and Duration of Study: Sample: This study was conducted among the weaving communities in the Agortime-Kpetoe traditional area from February 2019 to November 2019. Methodology: The simple random sampling technique was used to sample the 100 male Kete weavers. Self-designed questionnaire was used as data collection instrument. Reliability analysis of the questionnaire showed high reliability with Cronbach’s alpha of 0.86. The quantitative data were descriptively analyzed and presented in tables as frequency counts and percentages using the Statistical Program for Social Sciences (SPSS). Results: The study revealed that Kete weaving industry is a source of employment, income, clothing and socio-cultural identity to the people. The findings of this study revealed that Kete weaving and usage features prominently during lessons involving Basic Design and Technology, Religious and Moral Education as well as Social Studies in schools within Agortime-Kpetoe traditional area. Conclusion: It was recommended, among others, that financial institutions in the North Dayi District should provide credit facilities and financial support services to Kete weavers and sellers to enable them expand their industry and business activities. Also, the North Dayi District Assembly in liaison with the Small Scale and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Commission should provide credit facilities and financial support services to Kete weavers and other rural crafts to pave way for sustainable rural development.

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Section: The Development Of Kete Weaving As a Vocation In The Agortime Traditional Areasupporting

confidence: 87%

Socio-Cultural and Economic Importance of Kete Weaving in Agortime Traditional Area, Ghana

Wemegah¹,

Danso²,

Adom

2021

ARJASS

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“…The traditional authorities of two kente weaving towns of Agotime-Kpetoe and Bonwire have instituted annual kente festivals in honor of kente. The Agotime Kente festival, also known in Ewe as Agbamevorza, started in 1996 and the Bonwire Kente festival started in 1998 [23]. The aim of the Agotime Kente festival is to preserve the cultural and aesthetic values of the kente cloth, display uses of kente cloth and expose innovations and techniques in kente industry among other objectives to address the developmental needs of the Agotime traditional area (available online: http://ewekente.com/home, accessed on 16 December 2018).…”

Section: Kente Weaving In Ghanamentioning

confidence: 99%

Valuing Intangible Cultural Heritage in Developing Countries

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The disappearance of intangible cultural heritages (ICHs) together with associated symbols and meanings in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) undermines 2003 UN Convention for Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. To contribute to reversing this trend, the present study estimates the economic value of preserving traditional kente weaving and interpretation of kente symbols by establishing national demonstration centers in Ghana. Contingent valuation (CV) surveys of both the public and kente weavers are used to elicit their preferences for these national centers. As CV surveys of cultural heritage have often been criticized for lacking both policy and payment consequentiality, we have used a specific preservation measure and a non-voluntary payment vehicle to make the decision context realistic and consequential. Households show significant, positive mean willingness-to-pay (WTP) for establishing national centers to preserve both the kente weaving technique and the interpretation of kente symbols. Furthermore, we find no distance decay in WTP for preservation of this ICH; indicating that people have strong preferences for preserving this ICH independent of how far they live from the center of kente weaving activities. This leads to larger aggregated benefits of preservation compared to built cultural heritage and local environmental goods, for example, where strong distance decay occurs in many cases. This makes the net present value of centers for demonstration of kente weaving and interpretation of kente symbols positive and an economically worthwhile investment. The policy implication of these results is that higher investments in preserving ICHs can be justified not only from a cultural heritage perspective, but also from an economic point of view.

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“…especially lettehng and crosses in single strips or stoles (in the first instance developed for the African American market but now also widely used within Ghana) has its roots with Ewe weavers who attended the NMG missionary schools. For an in-depth discussion of the development of Asante and Ewe textile traditions and their interrelationships, see Kraamer 2005aKraamer , 2005bKraamer , 2006aKraamer , 2006bRoss 1998.…”

Section: Hand-woven Textiles and Christian Worshipmentioning

confidence: 99%