baobab

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• The baobab is a traditional food plant in Africa, but is little-known elsewhere. American Chronicle
• Bonderro" is a corruption of the Lusitanianized imbundeiro, the calabash, or adansonia (digitata?): the other baobab is called nkondo, probably the Aliconda and Elicandy of Battel and old travellers, who describe the water-tanks hollowed in its huge trunk, and the cloth made from the bark fibre. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2
• Genres like benga and jùjú took hold, and artists like Orchestra Baobab and Kuti found success beyond the continent. Pop Goes the Continent
• School children will pitch in to help staff at Johannesburg Zoo plant baobabs and false cabbage trees at the zoo on Arbor Day, Friday, 2 September, to celebrate national Arbor Week.
• We had 300 plants that we airfreighted from Perth, including a 7 metre Baobab tree which was quite a challenge in an air container.
• Nyanja kotola, ku­ - v.t. "strip off bark for barkcloth, burn off skin, brand"; ngotola "hooked stick used in removing baobab bark to make a rope (from kotola). Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
• This area is home of no less than seven of Africa's most amazing animals: the African elephant, the lion, giraffe, the baobab tree, the eland, the ostrich, and the koori bustard. Edward Lozzi: Obama and Clinton Fight International Parental Kidnappings
• Even the ostrich squawk as they make their way across the sandvelt to open marshlands and savannahs dotted with acacia, baobab trees and wild sage bushes.
• “As they say an elephant never forgets, the baobab is the wise old sage of the soil, and they, too, never forget. Giants of the Bushveld
• The trip begins in the Tarangire National Park, where baobab trees dot the horizon and tree-climbing lions doze in the shade.