Ayisha Awudu Ali grew up in Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region of Ghana where smock is very common. The traditional attire, made with hand-woven strips, is very popular in the three (3) regions in ...

The Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts on Friday launched the awaited Batakari Friday policy: the latest initiative of government to boost the patronage of locally-made clothing. Like the ...

Batakari, a traditional attire of the people in the northern part of the country, has been officially declared a National Friday Wear to be worn on the first Friday of every month. The initiative is ...

One of UK based Diaspora Event Companies, The Ghana Society is set to launch the first Batakari Festival in the UK. This is a way for the people of particularly Ghana and other African countries to ...

The King of Kologo Music and Ghana’s celebrated traditional musician, King Ayisoba, is appealing to all Ghanaians home and abroad to honor their mothers with a Kente or Batakari cloth as they ...

King Ayisoba, one of Ghana’s outstanding contemporary traditional musicians, is appealing to government to declare May 12 every year Batakari/Kente Day to promote the products and create more ...

As part of his efforts to promote the wearing of the traditional smock, called 'Batakari', musician King Ayisoba and his team are putting together the fourth edition of Batakari Night. The event is ...

The Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr Ekow Spio-Garbrah is set to declare the first Friday of each month, ‘Batakari Friday’. This announcement is expected on Friday September 4, 2015 at the ‘Grass is ...

This declaration will take place on September 04 2015, at a ceremony dubbed "The grass is greener" an initiative of the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority. The objective of this initiative is ...

Ghanaians across the country have turned out en masse to wear the country's colourful traditional outfit, the fugu, after the government designated Wednesdays "Fugu Day". The move comes after ...