Kente Cloth
By (Author) Ann-Marie Zoe Coore
Illustrated by Tajha Winkle
BookBaby
BookBaby
15th November 2022
United States
Children
Fiction
Hardback
60
Width 222mm, Height 285mm, Spine 10mm
526g
We are woven into Kente Cloth which symbolizes that we are never alone, but a part of a family, a community, a village, a country, a continent, rich with love, peace, joy, and humanity. Brilliantly designed in bold colors: yellows, reds, blues, oranges, greens, purples, browns, and black.
In our Kente Cloth is our language Twi, which reminds us to cry out to YASU the LAMB OF GOD that gives us purpose. So, in exaltation and praise, I shout to the nations of the world that - I am a child of GOD, I am African, I am a Masterpiece, I am Enough.
Come with me as I explore the intricacies of Africa as intertwined in the story of our Kente Cloth.
Akwaaba - Welcome!
Ann-Marie Zo Coore, a native Jamaican, has over twenty years of experience in international public health and international business. She has worked for organizations and youth programs such as the CDC Parent Matters Project, Office of Minority Health, and Integrated Social Solutions/AstraZeneca. Ann-Marie is the President and Founder of Coore Foundation, and its subsidiary Girls Right Of Way (GROW)
www.girlsrightofway.org. She leads the Coore Foundation's annual HIV, STD, and Teen Pregnancy Prevention Camps in the Caribbean, the USA, South & Central America, and Africa. Ann-Marie also develops, implements, and monitors intervention programs for children in twenty-three countries around the world. These programs include GROW Literacy - reading centers; GROW Sole - providing new and lightly used shoes to those in need and GROW Rhythm - music schools for children in high crime and under-resourced communities.
She is currently leading work with GOD ROCKS, her publishing, production, and promotion company, and I AM A QUINTESSENTIAL WOMAN, her company that supports women around the world to move mountains through women empowering women in an atmosphere of caring and mutual respect developing their essential self while starting, leading, and sustaining their essential work. Tajha T. Winkle Is a 21-year-old animator and freelance illustrator born and raised in Jamaica. Art was always an escape for her while growing up. It was a way for her to visualize stories and connect them to an audience. For the past 2 years, she has been a freelance illustrator. Her goal is to inspire and evoke emotions in the viewers through the stories inside her art. Tajah is the illustrator of three of the twenty-one children's books in the SCREE series.