| Depending on the purpose of the boubou, it may be elaborately embroidered and could cost two to three hundred dollars. |
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| Nigerians wear the boubou, Ghanaians the kente, former president Mobutu Sese Seko of the former Zaire made the safari suit his own. |
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| The word boubou, derived from the Wolof word mbubb, designates a large gown with long sleeves or a shirt that slips over the head. |
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| The grand boubou consists of a gown worn over a shirt and trousers for men, and over a wrapper with a head-scarf for women. |
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| He stresses the need for a wider view of west African boubou styles and their interrelationships. |
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| It consists of draw-string trousers, a long-sleeved loose-fitting shirt with an open neck, and a boubou. |
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| The west African embroidered boubou is becoming popular with both men and women. |
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| The best-known and best-studied duettists are certain African shrikes, notably the tropical boubou shrike Laniarius aethiopicus. |
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| The heavy air vibrates with cooing of doves and the creaking-gate single note of the tropical boubou. |
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| Aicha Doualeh greets people searching for fine fabrics and boubou gowns of all colours that have been imported from Dubai and India. |
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| I wanted to bring him a gift, so I decided to give him a boubou, one of the west African robes that I wear on stage. |
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| Mr. Condé was in fact disguised and wore jeans, a small boubou and sandals. |
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| She still carries razor blades wherever she goes, tucked away in her boubou, or gown. |
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| For formal occasions men and women may wear the grand boubou. |
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| He no longer wears his boubou out in public. |
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| Bell-shrikes or bellbirds, members of the African genus Laniarius, also of the bush-shrike group, often have names imitative of the males' notes: boubou and gonolek. |
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| It turns out that a man's voluminous robe, the traditional grand boubou, makes the perfect backdrop for female sitters. |
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| Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah from the Kuwaiti side and Minister of Equipment and Transportation Camara Seydi Boubou from the Mauritanian side. |
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