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Rumfa

Hausa · Hausa / Northern Nigeria; Niger; zongo communities in Ghana · Architecture

A shed, booth or market stall. Robinson glosses rumfa (pl. rumfuna) as a 'plank, table, shed, booth; stand on which things are exposed for sale, cover of a canoe'. He also records the Kano form rinfa, 'a mat-shed'.

Traders set out their goods under the rumfa.

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