Diamonds, cotton, timber, coffee, and sisal are shipped from Bangui.
It might be possible to operate a successful diamond mine, cotton plantation, or sock factory by treating employees as automatons and ignoring their basic needs, but that doesn't work for scientists.
A 30's-style armchair, above, is upholstered in Senegalese diamond-pattern cotton and raffia ($1,900).
In pink diamonds, a cotton candy shade is always more.
She began to study art, but after a year signed up to drive a wartime ambulance, so by the time she faced the lens - she became a favourite of the photographer Clifford Coffin - whether in Dior and diamonds or printed cotton satin, adult experience showed in her black-pencil-lined eyes.
NICE, France— In years past, Africa was always the outsiders' cornucopia, the font of gold and diamonds, slaves and minerals, cotton and rubber and, more latterly, oil.
MESAN's activities angered the French administration and the companies trading in cotton, coffee, diamonds and other commodities.
Some other firms such as Texas Jeans and Diamond Gusset tout locally sourced cotton in their US-made lines.
A writer for the Daily Mirror called Rose Cotton (Polly Perkins, Patrick Trueman Rudolph Walkerer) and Cora "diamond geezers".
Plastic raffia was interwoven with cotton to create a diamond jacquard on the aforementioned offending pants and metal holographic stars were incorporated into green and blue silk.
