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News Ghana » Ashanti » History: What are the origins of the Asante's famous kente cloth? I traced its history to find out

News channel or source: https://phys.org/news/2025-03-asante-famous-kente-history.html
Published on: Monday 03 March 2025

Kente is a prestigious royal cloth of Ghana's Asante people, part of their historical and cultural heritage. But there's a debate about where it originated: the Bonwire community or the Adanwomase ...

News Ghana » Ashanti » History: The mystery of the Ashanti Kingdom bowl believed to be from 1500s Europe

News channel or source: https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/entertainment/The-mystery-of-the-Ashanti-Kingdom-bowl-believed-to-be-from-1500s-Europe-2043293
Published on: Tuesday 14 July 2026

On show at the British Museum in a display titled The Asante Ewer is the “Aya Kese”, believed to have been made in Europe, taken to the Asante Kingdom of Ghana, looted by British troops in the late ...

News Ghana » Ashanti » History: The Northern factor in Ashanti history

News channel or source: https://www.si.edu/object/northern-factor-ashanti-history:siris_sil_14168
Published on: Saturday 11 October 2025

Reviewed by A. Adu Boahen in Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana (Legon) 6, 1962, pages 126-129. (DT510.A1 H67 AFA) Reviewed by D. H. Jones in Journal of African history (Cambridge, ...

News Ghana » Ashanti » History: Gold Fields and AngloGold Ashanti Provide an Update on the Proposed Joint Venture Between Gold Fields’ Tarkwa Mine and AngloGold Ashanti’s Iduapriem Mine in Ghana

News channel or source: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241107128794/en/Gold-Fields-and-AngloGold-Ashanti-Provide-an-Update-on-the-Proposed-Joint-Venture-Between-Gold-Fields%E2%80%99-Tarkwa-Mine-and-AngloGold-Ashanti%E2%80%99s-Iduapriem-Mine-in-Ghana/
Published on: Wednesday 06 November 2024

LONDON & DENVER & JOHANNESBURG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Gold Fields and AngloGold Ashanti (the “Parties”) refer shareholders to their joint media release of 16 March 2023 in which the Parties announced that ...