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n. A flowing wide-sleeved robe worn by men in much of West Africa, and to a lesser extent in North Africa.
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Boubou can refer to:
- Boubou (clothing), a type of clothing worn in West Africa
- Boubou, Burkina Faso, a town
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Boubou Macoutes
- Taken from Boubou, the nickname of Premier Robert Bourassa
- Laniarius (boubous or gonoleks), a genus of passerine birds
The grand boubou/bubu is one of the names for a flowing wide sleeved robe worn by men in much of West Africa, and to a lesser extent in North Africa, related to the dashiki suit . The name boubou derives from the Wolof word mbubb. It is known by various names, depending on the ethnic group wearing them: agbada ( Yoruba, Dagomba), babban riga ( Hausa), mbubb (Wolof) , k'sa or gandora ( Tuareg), darra'a Maghrebi Arabic, grand boubou (in various Francophone West African countries) and the English term of gown. The Senegalese boubou, a variation on the grand boubou described below, is also known as the Senegalese kaftan. The female version worn in some communities is also known as a m'boubou or kaftan.
Usage examples of "boubou".
Protecting their heads from the high sun they wore the howli, and their robes were ragged and dirty but had once been the boubou style of Mauritania far to the west.
Sean had told her once that it was the call of a bird called a boubou shrike, and because of its associations rather than its pitch it electrified her.