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Adanwomase is a town in the Kwabre East District of Ghana’s Ashanti Region.

Tradition leader of Adanwomase visits Otumfour in Kumasi
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About Adanwomase

Like the founding of many of the Asante towns and villages which often began as hunter’s huts, camps or bases where hunters treated their exploits, the hut or camp which is present – day Adanwomase might have been first settled by the Ekuona and Oyoko clans or tribes from Adanse Ayaase possibly around the year 1700.
Chronology as chiefs follows: –
1. Nana Ntiamoah Panin
2. Nana Antwi
3. Nana Kwadwo Tiah
4. Nana Nkansa
5. Nana Afriyie
6. Nana Okyei
7. Nana Opoku
8. Nana Fosu
9. Nana Antwi ( from Akyaa Benkum’s line. From 1964 to date)
 
Mr Adu Agyei (late) , Adanwomase Secretary

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About 27 kilometers northeast of Kumasi is Adanwomase. Kente weaving with towns like Bonwire, which is roughly 2 kilometers away, is well-known. The Adanwomase Secondary School is also well-known in the town. A miniature Kente weaving museum is also located in the town.

Though the two towns are not far from each other, they are located in two different districts in the Ashanti Region and have rivaled each other over which of the two possess the skill and prowess to weave the best kente in the country.

Though Bonwire is more popular and a known area for kente weaving, probably because the name has been used in the lyrics, Adanwomase is another town which also prides itself to be the best. It is the trade of almost the entire community.

History

In 1697, the Ashanti King commissioned one of his sub-chiefs, the Akyimpimhene, to send individuals from the towns of Adanwomase, Asotwe, Bonwire, and Wonoo to Bontuku, a small settlement in modern-day Ivory Coast, to study strip-weaving. The apprentices were given swatches of fabric with specific patterns on them when they returned, which they were instructed to study and be ready to reproduce on demand. These designs were known as Sesea and are said to be the first real Ashanti Kente Cloth. The original Sesea swatches, which date back centuries, are still kept in the Kente Chief’s residence in Adanwomase.

Adanwomase has been the Ashanti King’s royal weaving settlement since the first apprentices returned from Bontuku. The apprentices passed on the craft of Kente weaving to their friends and relatives, adding their own designs and colors in the process, resulting in the Ashanti Kente cloth we know today.

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Present-day and kente weaving

Adanwomase continues the centuries-old Kente weaving heritage to this day. Adanwomase weavers continue to weave textiles for the Ashanti King, royals, and everyone who understands the historical and cultural value weaved into Ashanti Kente under the direction of the Kente Chief. The Adanwo tree is the source of the town’s name. In Asante Twi, the name Adanwomase means “neath the Adanwo tree.”

Traditional Kente textile weaving is also popular in Adanwomase. Despite the fact that many oral accounts exist about the beginnings of Kente Cloth, historians and researchers agree that the manufacture of Kente Cloth is a continuation of millennia of strip-weaving in West Africa. Since the 11th century, West Africans have been strip-weaving. The art form is thought to have originated in the present-day Bonoman or Brong-Ahafo Region and expanded throughout West Africa through trade and migration, according to most scholars.

This is a town in Kwabre well known for the traditional Kente cloth weaving.

Although there are a variety of oral histories concerning the origins of Kente Cloth, historians and scholars agree that its production is an extension of centuries of strip-weaving in West Africa.

Strip-weaving has existed in West Africa since the 11th century. Most scholars believe that the art form was developed in present-day Mali and spread throughout West Africa through trade and migration.

The kente cloth, known as ‘’nwentoma’’ in Akan, is a type of cloth made from silk and cotton fabric, interwoven into strips and is native to the Akan ethnic group of southern Ghana. The cloth originates from  the Ashanti Kingdom, and has been adopted by the people of  La Cote d’Ivoire and many other West African countries.

Mention kente in Ghana and two towns readily come to mind: Bonwire and Adanwomase.

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