Ghanaians on social media are calling out a white South African man who has described the kente President Nana Addo wore to his inauguration ceremony (January 7) as ‘a shower curtain’.
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White SA man describes President Akufo-Addo’s kente as ‘a shower curtain’
The man, Pikkie Greeff, posted his disdain toward the kente and even the presidential throne on Twitter on January 9, but it has just received massive attention by Ghanaian social media users.
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The man, Pikkie Greeff, posted his disdain toward the kente and even the presidential seat on Twitter on January 9, but it has just received massive attention by Ghanaian social media users.
He tweeted a photo of the new president clad in the traditional Akan regalia accompanied by: “Someone wanna tell us why the Ghana President wears a shower curtain & sits on a primary school stage play prop?”
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According to his Twitter bio, Greeff is the ‘National Secretary of the South African National Defence Union (SANDU) the largest military trade union in the [South African army].”
Ghanaians have not been kind to him following his comments and with many describing him as ‘ignorant’.
Kente is a handwoven cloth made in the many regions in Ghana with its ancestral home widely believed to be Bonwire in the Ashanti Region. They are very expensive and worn on very special occasions such as one’s wedding, that of their child or one’s inauguration as president of a country.
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The Kente worn by President Nana Akufo-Addo at his inauguration was specially woven for him and in such occasions there will be no duplicates of the design ever made.
When auctioned, it is likely to fetch millions of cedis.
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