# Pakaja

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{{Short description|Yoruba toga-like traditional cloth}}
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|image1 = A Nigerian man from the Yoruba ethnicity dressed in typical outdoor event attire.png
|caption1 = Yoruba man in Kaja / Pakaja robe, Gọbi cap and Kẹmbẹ trouser.
|image2 = Yoruba men in Kaja (Pakaja) and Aso Olona in Abeokuta, 1972.jpg
|caption2 = Yoruba men in Pakaja attire and Itagbe [Aṣọ Ọlọna](/source/Aso_Olona) at the [Alake](/source/Alake_of_Egbaland_(title))'s palace, [Abeokuta](/source/Abeokuta), 1972.
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'''Pakaja''' also known as '''Ibora Oke''', or simply as '''Kaja''' is a type of [Yoruba](/source/Yoruba_people) dress style<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-03-03 |title=Wo ìtàn Orunmila, Babaláwo àkọ́kọ́ àti ohun tó fi sílẹ̀ lọ níbí |url=https://www.bbc.com/yoruba/afrika-56263837 |access-date=2023-12-31 |website=BBC News Yorùbá |language=yo}}</ref> worn by men and women in different styles.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ovirih |first=Steve |date=2020-08-06 |title=Jegede may lose Guber victory over choice of running mate - Erelu Tinuade Mabel Onaneye. |url=https://thepolity.net/jegede-may-lose-guber-victory-over-choice-of-running-mate-erelu-tinuade-mabel-onaneye/ |access-date=2023-12-31 |website=ThePolity |language=en-US}}</ref> Pakaja is described as to pass a Yoruba Country Cloth from under the arm to the shoulder. It is a [Toga](/source/Toga) like clothing style. Kaja is the name of the outfit itself while to ''Pa Kaja'' is the verbal act of wearing it which may also substitute as the name of the dressing style. 
Pakaja can be donned in any fabric of choice.<ref>{{Cite web |title=اداب الرافدین |url=https://radab.mosuljournals.com/ |access-date=2024-01-04 |website=radab.mosuljournals.com |language=ar |archive-date=2024-04-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240410005711/https://radab.mosuljournals.com/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Oyeniyi |first=Bukola Adeyemi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NjZzCwAAQBAJ&dq=Yoruba+mens+clothing+kaja&pg=PA14-IA5 |title=Dress in the Making of African Identity: A Social and Cultural History of the Yoruba People |date=2015-09-08 |publisher=Cambria Press |isbn=978-1-62196-719-4 |language=en}}</ref>

== References ==
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Category:Yoruba culture
Category:Culture of West Africa
Category:Clothing by culture

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