#166 boubou/bubu

boubou/bubu- a long flowing garment worn by men and women in Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, and some other parts of Africa

- native name in Mali

Wednesday in the small Senegalese village of Dal Diam, where he was given a traditional robe known as a boubou to wear, as if to justify the nickname the daily Le Soleil had given him that morning: "Clinton the African.

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