10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BOUBOU»
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boubou in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
boubou and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Intermediaries, Interpreters, and Clerks: African Employees ...
Satourou did marry Bademba's son as planned, but the new groom took the
precaution of paying Boubou three hundred francs to stay away. Boubou took the
money, but "this did not stop [him] from taking [Satourou] by force and returning
her ...
Benjamin Nicholas Lawrance, Emily Lynn Osborn, Richard L. Roberts, 2006
2
Culture and Customs of Nigeria
For wealthy women, the boubou can also serve as an additional layer, on top of
the blouse and wrapper. The boubou placed on top of another garment has to be
in materials, such as lace, that will reveal the under layers and show off ...
3
Culture and Customs of Cameroon
or pants, boubou purists only wear pajama-type pants (usually made of the same
material as the boubou). The dress is usually complemented by a dome- shaped
hat, which is made of the same material as the boubou. The Wrapper and the ...
4
The Modernity Bluff: Crime, Consumption, and Citizenship in ...
The boubou therefore symbolized many of the same categories lumped together
in both the political discourse of Ivoirité and the street hierarchy of yere and gaou.
Because it condensed the polyvalent associations of both the nationalist ...
5
The Politics of Dress in Somali Culture
This style might have come from the French colony of Djibouti, since it was more
popular in northern Somali territory and resembles the boubou worn in French-
speaking West Africa.70 The dirac (figure 19) is a long, loose-fitting dress made
by ...
6
Oral Epics from Africa: Vibrant Voices from a Vast Continent
She became pregnant and Gueladiegui died. His brother, Konko Boubou
Moussa, succeeded him. He ordered that any of his brother's wives who was
pregnant should be put to death, to avoid giving birth to a future king. Sewi Malal,
the griot, ...
John William Johnson, Thomas Albert Hale, Stephen Paterson Belcher, 1997
7
Women at the Crossroads: A Prostitute Community's Response ...
She said she could not go to the clinic because she did not have a boubou to put
on, insisting her tee shirt and old pagne were not appropriate for a trip into town.
The night before, Astou slept on the dirt outside Bar Ambiance because another ...
Michelle Lewis Renaud, 1997
8
Travels in the interior of Africa, to the sources of the ...
282 UNEXPECTED ENCOUNTER WITH BOUBOU. huts. i Saadou, who had
property in this place, begged me to halt there, whilst he directed his slaves what
they were to do in the plantations during his absence. I was scarcely seated in a
hut ...
Gaspard Théodore Mollien (comte de), Thomas Edward Bowdich, Pierre Berthier, 1820
9
Shrikes of Southern Africa: True Shrikes, Helmet-shrikes, ...
INTRODUCTION The Swamp Boubou was originally described by J. Verreaux in
1857 from a specimen collected in Gabon, West Africa. Its specific name, bicolor,
refers to its black and white colouring. The generic name Laniarius was given ...
10
Encyclopedia of clothing and fashion
Senegalese women wear the Senegalese robe, or boubou. The garment is sewn
from a single piece of embroidered cotton damask fabric. The boubou is the most
basic garment in the Senegalese culture, much like blue jeans in the United ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BOUBOU»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
boubou is used in the context of the following news items.
Die Superhelden von Ouagadougou
Diese Fotoreihe der Superhelden ist einer einfachen Skizze entsprungen: ein Spider-Man- Boubou, den ich in meinen Notizblock gezeichnet ... «VICE.com, Jul 15»
La Fête nationale and nonsense politics
... for wearing a turban, headscarf, grand boubou or veil — is all because our previous June 24 celebrations have lacked adequate budgets. «Cult MTL, Jun 15»
Morocco: fashion becomes occasion for migrants
They arrived in Morocco after years of peregrinations in the heart of the continent, showing with pride their highly colored boubou they made as ... «ANSAmed, Jun 15»
Migrants trade tales of hope and despair in African desert town
"This is all I have left," he says, pointing to his brown boubou robe, grubby after the week-long journey from Tripoli. Authorities in Niger say they ... «Zee News, Jun 15»
Anna Badkhen: In Mali, nomadic jihadis rise again
... in what today is central Mali, one of Dan Fodio's disciples, a Fulani orphan named Ahmad bin Muhammad Boubou bin Abi Bakr bin Sa'id al ... «TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press, Jun 15»
MALI : Experts from Deloitte, Eversheds and BRGM finally picked
Mines minister Boubou Cisse backs the project, as he is determined to counter the 6% drop in mining revenue last year and to vye more ... «Africa Intelligence, Jun 15»
AFRICA : Mining on Top
Among those due to attend are Ivory Coast's Jean-Claude Brou, Mali's Boubou Cisse, Nil Osah Mills from Ghana, Najib Balala from Kenya but ... «Africa Intelligence, Jun 15»
Affiliate Marketer? Some Legal Issues to be Aware of
... rationale behind this new craze for friends of the groom at Nigerian weddings to buy Aso-ebi with full blown Agbada (Boubou), but I digress. «TechCabal, Jun 15»
Mali validates updated Diagnostic Trade Integration Study
... of UNCTAD, Mbaye Ndiaye Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF) coordinator and Boubou Dramane Camara UNDP Country Director. «UNCTAD, May 15»
For relatives in Nepal, earthquake exposed strength of humanity
Two impoverished neighborhood children, Rabina, 10, and BouBou, 4, were visiting as they often did. The earth began to shake. "It became ... «Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 15»
