Maryland Company Hopes to Make 'Country Cloth' Fashionable
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A Maryland company is marketing "Manja Collection" to brand, urbanize and make the traditional African "country cloth" more fashionable. For Africa News Tonight, VOA's James Butty spoke to the company's Cathy Eastman who said “Manja” means "chief" or leader" in the Vai language of Liberia.