Sunday service can feature brilliantined choirboys, or an organist, or dancing women in kente cloth. From Wordnik.com. [The Velvet Reformation] Reference
Rawlings draped a hero's cloth, or "kente", over Clinton's shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
She also co-curated an exhibition on kente cloth at Emory University. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of African Art director aims to increase visibility, collections] Reference
A selfish young man learns to compromise in a book with bold, kente-cloth colors. From Wordnik.com. [2007 March 30 « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference
Buttery leather cushions rested on the chairs and kente print placemats lay on the tables. From Wordnik.com. [Sin in Soul's Kitchen] Reference
French uses kente-like motifs not just on clothes but on shields, houses, a river, and even a face. From Wordnik.com. [2007 March 30 « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference
More ministers are wearing kente cloth on their vestments and playing African drums during services. From Wordnik.com. [Battling For Soul] Reference
Africa medallions, kente cloth and fezes were common, as were t-shirts with Africentric images and slogans. From Wordnik.com. [Tell the story of one of your oldest and dearest friends] Reference
Legend has it that kente was first made by two friends who went hunting in a forest and found a spider making a web. From Wordnik.com. [Robert D. Patterson: 2009 Gary Roosevelt High School Commencement Address] Reference
If you are African American, how do you feel when someone who is not Black shows up in a kente cloth or mudcloth kofi?. From Wordnik.com. [Hats and Crowns] Reference
Anatsui in 2006, evokes traditional West African kente cloth but transforms it into a glowing, crumpled wall sculpture. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
President Barack Obama stood before Ghana's boisterous parliament, with a backdrop of festive kente cloth and adoring crowds cheering outside. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Exhorts Africans to Fight Corruption, Embrace Democracy] Reference
His kente cloth is well-patterned, his robes lined with white fur are intricately detailed with green variations, and his shoes are faaa-bulous. From Wordnik.com. [Review of the Day: Santa's Kwanzaa] Reference
In The End of Blackness, Dickerson turns her gaze outward, leveling sweeping attacks against "white intransigence" and "kente cloth politics" alike. From Wordnik.com. [Getting Over Race] Reference
While the kente cloth stoles in the catalogs and on many colleagues look great, I know I am way too white girl to begin to feel comfortable in them. From Wordnik.com. [Ready-To-Wear Cultural Assimilation] Reference
Their visual culture - kente and adinkra cloth, gold weights and graceful wooden stools - have become synonymous in the West with traditional Africa. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Artist Rachel Isadora has built a career by taking traditional European tales and verse and plunking them down amid the drums and kente cloth of Africa. From Wordnik.com. [Fresh Christmas Stories] Reference
In his home village of Aburanza, Kofi Sam has sponsored a cane furniture works, hand-weaving of kente cloth, and machine-assisted grinding of cassava flour. From Wordnik.com. [Ghana Speaking (III): Kofi Sam's Model of African Self-Sufficiency] Reference
It is visible in the streets, where the assertion of Afrocentrism may take the form of handloomed Ghanaian kente cloth or brilliant metallic Ashoke from Nigeria. From Wordnik.com. [African Dream] Reference
LOUIS: Professor, when the Christmas season -- the holiday season comes around, do they celebrate Kwanzaa, do they bring out kente cloth, do they tell kids to sort of. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 17, 2008] Reference
It was decorated with African themes: a map of the continent, posters of ancient Africa's kings and queens, a collection of drums and gourds and a kente-cloth wall hanging. From Wordnik.com. [Dreams From My Father]
And his daughter has enhanced the book with handsome hand-colored linoleum-block prints framed by decorative borders, some reminiscent of the Ghanaian cloth known as kente. From Wordnik.com. [2009 September 11 « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference
Africa: Nehru-style brocade suits with kente-cloth buttons. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
Mr Obama shook hands with local dignitaries, some in the colourful traditional kente cloth. From Wordnik.com. [ireland.com Breaking News] Reference
Bill Clinton was mobbed - much like a rock star - and later draped in colourful Ghanaian kente. From Wordnik.com. [AllAfrica News: Latest] Reference
Kentucky Fried Chicken has changed into kente ji: kente keeps the sound of "Kentu," and ji meaning. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 3] Reference
Lisbon kente cloth enthusiasts Blasfemea sing in English and named all the songs on their new album. From Wordnik.com. [PopMatters]
The pin is made from kente African cloth with a card attached that explains the meaning of the cloth and how Black History Month started in Canada. From Wordnik.com. [canada.com Top Stories] Reference
India, 2009, wherein similar dark golden caps are interwoven with blue, red, and green ones, hang like rich folds of crumpled kente cloths on creamy walls. From Wordnik.com. [artforum.com] Reference
It’s his wife and his elves holding out his kente with a big banner reading, “Welcome Home, Santa Kwaz!”. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-02-01] Reference
It’s his wife and his elves holding out his kente with a big banner reading, “Welcome Home, Santa Kwaz!”. From Wordnik.com. [Review of the Day: Santa's Kwanzaa] Reference
GEPC to market kente at 2010 World Cup. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to The old dilemma plays out at Paris fashion week: Practical vs. extravagant garments] Reference
That was when you would see agbada, babariga, etibo, woko, opu shirti, jumper, shokoto, kente akwete, and so on. From Wordnik.com. [Linda Constant: Cultural Reorientation in Africa: Nigeria's "Project Runway"] Reference
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