About Us

KENTESOURCE is a small scale weaving home-based enterprise located at Adanwomase in the Kwabre District of the Ashanti Region of Ghana. The company started in 1992 and registered in 2003 as part of Adanwomase Co-operative Kente Weavers/Designers and Marketing Society group enterprises.

Its main products are Kente cloth products woven on local looms and include mufflers, Stoles, Shawls, mats, tablecloths, window and door curtains, bedcovers with pillow cases, wall hangings, hats, ties and bowties. The enterprise produces its own original designs and motifs.

The group leader and owner of KENTESOURCE is Nkrumah Gabriel, a young dynamic entrepreneur with much vision, drive and initiative. The owner is also a unique designer and producer of original design Kente patterns before they are transferred onto looms for actual production. The enterprise has ten (10) artisans comprising weavers, designers and a tailor and is managed with the assistance of a supervisor.

The owner with a degree in Administration with major in Business information System manages the enterprise with the assistance of a supervisor. He has been instrumental in forming the Adanwomase Co-operative Kente Weavers/Designers and Marketing Society with eight (8) hand–loom textile weaving enterprises, of which he is the current secretary. Each of the enterprises has an average of 12 workers.

The formation of the association has set a firm production base for meeting large orders that cannot be met by any one producer. Nkrumah does coordination and delivery of large orders. Current buyers are from Ghana, Nigeria, Cote D’Ivoire, Benin, Mali, Burkina Faso and Togo and also Ghanaian commission agents in Europe. Products can be shipped from Tema Port, on the outskirts of Accra, Ghana or by air from Accra.

Nkrumah is currently seeking to expand the market of this unique product line of textiles into the North and South American market and is interested in doing business with international buyers in Kente designs.