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elamba
eh-la-mba
cloth
French: le tissu / le pagne
Elamba oyo ezali kitoko.
This cloth is beautiful.
Ce tissu est beau.
Cloth — the wrapper that dresses a whole culture. Elamba is cloth or a garment — above all the brilliant printed pagne wrapped, tied and worn across the Congo. To choose an elamba is to choose how you greet the world.
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