How does Africa Fashion frame Ghanaian kente
The weave matters, but so does the photograph beside it: Ghanaian kente in the V&A’s Africa Fashion exhibition is placed alongside images of Kwame Nkrumah at independence and studio portraits from the 1960s and 1970s. I’m sharing this piece because it opens a useful question about how museums show clothing as material, political memory, and lived style rather than as a floating trend.