KENTE'S STRONG THREADS; Smithsonian Show Explores Tie Between African Cloth and Black Americans

The Washington Post | September 14, 1999| | Copyright

One of Marion Barry's suit jackets, circa 1994, is hanging in a case in "Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity," a touring exhibition visiting the Mall.

Its fabric is a blue gabardine of a somber mayoral hue, as one would expect. That's what mayors wear. But its collar and lapels are trimmed in yellow, red and green kente cloth from Africa. Barry's jacket, his politician's uniform with its badge of black identity, is a multi-message garment in a multi-message show.

In the courts of the Ewe and Ashanti, kente is the cloth of gods and kings. In America, kente--on ...

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