Boubou (clothing)
Flowing wide-sleeved robe in Africa / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the grand boubou and its variations. For the Senegalese variant, see Senegalese kaftan. For The Yoruba variant, see Agbada.
The boubou or grand boubou from the Wolof word mboubou is a flowing wide-sleeved robe from Senegal worn across West Africa, and to a lesser extent in North Africa.
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The garments and its variations are known by various names in different ethnic groups and languages. It is called agbádá in Yoruba, babban Riga in Hausa, boubou, mbubb, mboubou or grand mboubou in Wolof, k'sa or gandora in Tuareg, Kwayi Bèri in Zarma-Songhai, darra'a in Maghrebi Arabic, grand boubou is now used in various French-speaking West African countries and the English term gown.
The female Senegalese boubou, also called grand boubou, is also worn across West Africa.