Until now, the kente cloth, which is a unique fabric of the Ashanti people, has remained a regular outfit for traditional rulers in Ghana. Lately, the creative blend of fashion and technology has made the cloth an even more symbolic Ghanaian thing.
And a resurfaced 1989 video of the late Queen Elizabeth seamlessly pinpointing it and linking it to Ghana has warmed many hearts.
The video – a lineup of children from across the world waiting to greet the queen outside Buckingham Palace, while dressed in identifiable outfits peculiar to their countries, particularly warms the hearts of Ghanaians at the point when she greets a boy in the kente colours.
With every step she makes towards a child, she would acknowledge them and greet them as courteously as always.
This she did a few times with the children before this young Ghanaian boy had his turn with the late Queen of England.
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Without hesitation on reaching where he stood, Queen Elizabeth II exclaimed, “And you must come from Ghana. Yes, I recognised this; kente cloth. Very smart.”
At this point, with the queen beaming with a wide smile and what some may call an easy feeling of pride, even the rest of the other children could not help but wear proud smiles too.
But it gets better; the look on the face of this young Ghanaian boy read some sternness, or what some may simply term seriousness from the chap.
Watch the video below:
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