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TL;DR

The paper draws a metaphor between Kente weaving and evidence-based practice, highlighting how both create meaningful patterns through intricate processes.

Contribution

Introduces a novel metaphor linking traditional Kente weaving techniques to the process of evidence-based practice.

Findings

Kente weaving and evidence-based practice both involve combining intricate elements to form meaningful patterns.

The metaphor illustrates how accumulated knowledge can be stitched into a coherent understanding.

Abstract

Kente weaving is mesmerising artistry with profound meanings hidden within its colors and intricate symbols. It is woven on a horizontal loom to yield narrow strips, each with their own pattern, repetition, and colors. Several of these are then carefully laid out and stitched together lengthwise to make a large piece.

Evidence-based practice is akin to this process by delicately weaving intricate threads of knowledge, acquired over time from several hypotheses and observations, and eventually reveal a meaningful pattern, a fabric of understanding, as complex and finely textured as the most intricate of tapestries. Photo Credit: Alan Tobey/Canva