Adinkra Symbols: The Visual Language of West Africa - Symbol Sage

Adinkra symbols explained: Meaning, origin, style, spiritual significance

YOU SHOULD KNOW: ADINKRA CLOTH MAKING (GHANA) Adinkra are visual symbols, originally created by the Ashanti of GHANA that represent concepts or aphorisms. Ashanti oral tradition dates the arrival of adinkra to the end of the 1818 war with Gyaaman. However, its said Thomas Edward Bowdich collecting a piece of adinkra cloth in 1817, shows that adinkra art existed before the traditional starting date. Adinkra cloths were traditionally only worn by royalty & spiritual leaders for funerals & other ve

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