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Raffia palms are
members of the
genus Raphia. The
Malagasy name
rafia is
derived from fia "to
squeeze juice". The
genus contains about twenty species of...
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Polypropylene raffia, or PP
raffia is a
packaging material made from
weaving ribbons of
oriented polypropylene. It is
named after the
raffia palm, which...
- Kuba
textiles are a type of
raffia cloth unique to the
Democratic Republic of the Congo,
formerly Zaire, and
noted for
their elaboration and complexity...
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United Republic of Tanzania. The archipelago's main
industries are ****es,
raffia, and tourism. The main ****es
produced are clove, nutmeg, cinnamon, coconut...
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Raphia (moth), a
genus of
moths in the
family Noctuidae Raffia palm, the
genus Raphia of
raffia palms Raphia (town), the
Ancient Gr**** name for Rafah,...
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agricultural and
mineral products.
Agriculture (including the
growing of
raffia), mining,
fishing and
forestry are
mainstays of the economy. In 2017 the...
- Akan word kɛntɛn
which means a
basket and the
first kente weavers used
raffia fibres to
weave cloths that
looked like
kenten (a basket); and thus were...
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across West
Africa to
Ivory Coast, Ghana, and Nigeria.
raffia fiber from
dried stripped leaves of
raffia palm was
commonly used in West
Africa and Central...
- Ikot Ekpene, also
known as The
Raffia City, is a
historic town in the south-southern
state of Akwa Ibom, Nigeria. It is the
political and
cultural capital...
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kingship and nobility. The co****
filament stripped from the
fronds of the
raffia palm tree
served as the
foundation of the
Kongo weaving arts. This material...
