Our History: About the origin of the name “DJENNE” in MALI Africa still has pharaonic work to do on its most distant past. There is no shortage of tools to understand entire sections of it. But one still needs to be able to decipher and interpret them. In this, the Cameroonian Jesuit Priest Engelbert Mveng, […]
TRIBUNE – AFRICA/HISTORY: The origin of the names NIGER and NIGERIA In TRIBUNE: Negritude to the aid of Afropeanity (Part One): https://www.afriquedestinations.com/fr/tribune-la-negritude-au-secours-… published in AFRIQUE Destinations, Professor Kalamba Nsapo Research Director at INADEP University Faculty of Protestant Theology of Brussels CARES Research Center writes: “Before the birth of French and English, we know the use of the expression Nigra […]
In Top 10 words that come from Arabic, Lexicographer Édouard Trouillez writes in Le Robert Dico online: « 2. Nuba A familiar and somewhat old-fashioned synonym for celebration, nuba in no way evokes military rigor. It was, however, borrowed in the 19th century from the Algerian Arabic nuba, which means “in turn” and “guard duty”. By […]
Cover Picture Credit: https://www.britannica.com/place/Nile-River HISTORY / ANCIENT EGYPT – Origin and meaning of the name of the longest river in Africa: the “NILE” For a long time, the Guinness World Records considered the Nile, the longest river in Africa with its 6.852 km, as the longest river in the world as well. But this first […]