How Each African Capital Got Its Name
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00:00 Intro
00:24 Algiers (Algeria)
00:43 Luanda (Angola)
01:12 Porto-Novo (Benin)
01:24 Gaborone (Botswana)
01:48 Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)
02:19 Gitega (Burundi)
02:43 Yaounde (Cameroon)
03:08 Praia (Cabo Verde)
03:32 Bangui (Central African Republic)
03:52 N'Djamena (Chad)
04:15 Moroni (Comoros)
04:28 Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
04:59 Brazzaville (Republic of the Congo)
05:26 Yamoussoukro (Côte D'Ivoire)
05:43 Djibouti (Djibouti)
06:01 Cairo (Egypt)
06:30 Malabo (Equatorial Guinea)
06:56 Asmara (Eritrea)
07:13 Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)
07:27 Libreville (Gabon)
07:35 Banjul (The Gambia)
07:48 Accra (Ghana)
08:04 Conakry (Guinea)
08:15 Bissau (Guinea-Bissau)
08:28 Nairobi (Kenya)
08:40 Maseru (Lesotho)
08:49 Monrovia (Liberia)
09:07 Tripoli (Libya)
09:27 Antananarivo (Madagascar)
09:39 Lilongwe (Malawi)
09:48 Bamako (Mali)
09:54 Nouakchott (Mauritania)
10:01 Port Louis (Mauritius)
10:09 Rabat (Morocco)
10:24 Maputo (Mozambique)
10:38 Windhoek (Namibia)
10:52 Abuja (Nigeria)
11:07 Kigali (Rwanda)
11:19 Laayoune (West Sahara)
11:37 São Tomé (São Tomé e Príncipe)
11:43 Dakar (Senegal)
11:51 Victoria (Seychelles)
11:57 Freetown (Sierra Leone)
12:02 Mogadishu (Somalia)
12:15 Hargeisa (Somaliland)
12:28 Pretoria, Bloemfontein, Capetown (South Africa)
12:45 Juba (South Sudan)
13:00 Khartoum (North Sudan)
13:16 Lombaba, Mbabane (Eswatini)
13:34 Dar Es Salaam, Dodoma (Tanzania)
13:53 Lomé (Togo)
14:10 Tunis (Tunisia)
14:31 Kampala (Uganda)
14:41 Lusaka (Zambia)
14:48 Harare (Zimbabwe)
15:07 Summary
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▶ In this video I talk about how each African country's capital city got its name. What the origin is, as well as its meaning. Plus, in some cases, the historical evolution of the name and previous names that those settlements had.
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@General.Knowledge Жыл бұрын
*Do you have any suggestions for video ideas?*
@liondz8224 Жыл бұрын
What if Ottoman empire had colonies 🤷
@lildreadnaughtstarwar Жыл бұрын
How did Corsica become owned by a bank that one time?
@matthewtyppo5727 Жыл бұрын
How each Oceanian country got it's name
@lucaspalmaa Жыл бұрын
Gostaria que você também trouxesse conteúdo em português! Acredito que em algum vídeo você disse que era de Portugal, e sua pronuncia das palavras em português me parece com o sotaque de lá. Talvez pudesse ter um canal secundário com a narração em português! Caso eu entendi errado, peço desculpas! Um abraço e obrigado pelo ótimo conteúdo!!
@BrazilianImperialist Жыл бұрын
@@liondz8224 It fid
@oscardrake3823 Жыл бұрын
10:45 I am fron Niger so I could help about the origin of Niamey. There is a lot of theories about the origin of Niamey but the most plausible comes from an expression in Zarma-Songhaï (group of local languages spoken in the West of Niger and in Mali). The expression is "Gna Mé" meaning the mouth of the mother. But do'nt take it literally, it's kind of metaphorical. It means the place an old woman (one of the first inhabitants of Niamey) came to take water (at the Niger rive). Another theory suggests that it comes from the phrase "wa gnamma né" which was deformated by the colonizers to Niamey. In fact the phrase means "Yoyou had theses information before so u can stay here". Ironic isn't? Hope I help. I really enjoyed your video. But I wished you have this information before
@concept5631 Жыл бұрын
Interesting.
@onnayoung7699 Жыл бұрын
Yes the world need more Africa in there general knowledge
@BrazilianImperialist Жыл бұрын
Less*
@najah3507 Жыл бұрын
@@BrazilianImperialist more
@General.Knowledge Жыл бұрын
Africa has really interesting history!
@yaagodourado Жыл бұрын
True!
@archstanton6102 Жыл бұрын
Yes definitely need more on Africa
@bretdolan9013 Жыл бұрын
I think a video about why South Africa has 3 capitals would be interesting.
@AllSeerAugustus Жыл бұрын
When the four original colonies were grouped together to form the Union of South Africa, it was agreed upon that they would all share the burden of being the capital. (Their rivalries, cultures and recent war made them quite wary of each other). Cape Province's capital of Cape Town became the legislative capital. Transvaal province's capital Pretoria became the Administrative capital. Orange Free State's capital Bloemfontein became the judicial capital. Natal province's capital of Pietermaritzburg became the archival capital. They were eventually compensated with money and didn't become a capital.
@Alahlyandsalahfan11 Жыл бұрын
Yeh.
@General.Knowledge Жыл бұрын
I did one already! About countries with more than one capital :)
@themorrocoballofficials Жыл бұрын
@@General.Knowledge how bout the territorial evolution of morroco
@KO-xe8vj Жыл бұрын
Côté d’ivoire also had 2 capitals , forgot Abidjan the economic capital.
@David-qp9bq Жыл бұрын
Lovely video, I'd love more videos about African history ore colonisation
@BrazilianImperialist Жыл бұрын
No
@General.Knowledge Жыл бұрын
Thanks! It's a great topic
@BrazilianImperialist Жыл бұрын
@One Day I’ll Become A Real KZfaqr ?
@annastasiadeloise Жыл бұрын
@@BrazilianImperialist troll
@papazataklaattiranimam Жыл бұрын
Love Northern Africa from Turkiye💕
@papazataklaattiranimam Жыл бұрын
@Anhedon 🤓
@d_mosimann Жыл бұрын
Wow, over 60 well-researched and interesting data in a 15 minutes video. Other KZfaqrs publish over 60 videos before even trying to spell the word research, but only every 15th of it succeeds. - Thank you for your work, it's very appreciated.
@General.Knowledge Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@themorrocoballofficials Жыл бұрын
@@General.Knowledge how bout the territorial evolution of morroco
@yaagodourado Жыл бұрын
Great video, it's so good to see you talking about Africa's History
@Clefairy4007 Жыл бұрын
12:47 Thanks for that beautiful pronunciation of Afrikaans words😂
@logansymmes2193 Жыл бұрын
Afrikaans is the Mutt of languages. Love it though
@Clefairy4007 Жыл бұрын
@@logansymmes2193 Ayo, Afrikaans is the evolved and better version of the second best language (Dutch)
@abydos7775 Жыл бұрын
For Guinea Bissau I think you mean Leopard Warriors. On that postal stamp is says Panthera Pardus, Latin for Leopard. Jaguar are endemic to the Americas
@joshthomson3948 Жыл бұрын
Amazing video Great Information
@reduck1312 Жыл бұрын
Thanks, I was looking forward to this one.
@factz124 Жыл бұрын
Interesting knowledge. Thank you!
@xtraviation Жыл бұрын
My man watched the whole 15 minute video in 1 minute
@factz124 Жыл бұрын
@@xtraviation time travel was a great invention.
@barbarahurwitz9018 8 ай бұрын
Thank you so much. This is the best video I’ve seen on Africa and it’s capitals. Keep up the good work.
@mariajoaoferrazdeabreu150 Жыл бұрын
Congrats, great video.
@noelikechukwuazubogu2211 Жыл бұрын
EXCELLENT WORK
@hisforhistory Жыл бұрын
Great video. Very interesting.
@nunogoncalovianacandeias7481 Жыл бұрын
Mais um excelente trabalho. Obrigado pelo conhecimento partilhado. Muitos parabéns.
@hungariancountryball2928 Жыл бұрын
Amazing!
@llnbbn Жыл бұрын
Love the Ali Farka Toure music in the background :)
@svetllama Жыл бұрын
this is a great video to test my geography skills! I have been working hard on my African geography
@otalfreitas Жыл бұрын
Congratulations for this info
@CaptainbaII Жыл бұрын
burkina's is the hardest to tell and the biggest for me , also for me its like a baby screamed and they liked the name
@Raibeart1338 Жыл бұрын
Silly remark! These are words in a language you don't know. If you knew the language, it would be no funnier a name than London or Paris.
@CaptainbaII Жыл бұрын
It's not like it's the English translation
@Tenast_ Жыл бұрын
Hello! Great video 👍 Tunis original name comes from the Amazigh word TENEST Which means the Key in Tamazight language. I’m an Amazigh-Tunisian- African- Mediterranean. ❤️❤️❤️
@ThePanEthiopian Жыл бұрын
The old name of Addis Ababa is Finfinne because the hot springs made a fin fin fin sound in oromo language.
@westcrook2718 Жыл бұрын
Yes and soon it will be renamed Finfinne
@derar123 Жыл бұрын
Nope
@lifaddiz6766 Жыл бұрын
Actually this video is all about how the capitals of African countries found their names not how the territories they're found on got their name. Finfine is a place where the city found on but Addis Ababa is the Capital.
@westcrook2718 Жыл бұрын
@@lifaddiz6766 1 thats wrong and 2 the capital will soon go back to its original name and be the capital of a new Oromia country. Ethiopia is done for
@insertobject4002 Жыл бұрын
@@westcrook2718 spotted the Egyptian
@danielsentertainmentproduc1527 Жыл бұрын
Oh yeah bro keep up with the good job! By the way a video on how American cities that declined or increased in population per capita would be interesting
@real_ysm Жыл бұрын
im Pakistani but I love Africa especially the Magreb
@Leyolav97 Жыл бұрын
We also love Pakistan
@vitor_master Жыл бұрын
Great video 👏🏻🧐
@General.Knowledge Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@robertbaumann9085 Жыл бұрын
Love the African content
@muhdsaifullahong1451 Жыл бұрын
at this point, these are no longer general knowldege, but additional knowledge. nice. 👍👍👍
@hernanimiguel477 Жыл бұрын
Esse sotaquezinho a dizer Luanda , great videos tho
@pradofs Жыл бұрын
That was very interesting! I really like your videos. Congratulations! Can you speak Portuguese? I noticed you have a very good pronunciation.
@elybnraul2126 Жыл бұрын
He is native to portugal
@aubreydebeer8568 Жыл бұрын
In Addition to South Africa. Pretoria is also called Tshwane. It is a setswana name for the river which runs through the city (names origin is unclear, It is either the name of a chieftain son or it is “the place of the black cow”). The river also has an Afrikaans name, Die Apies (small monkeys) Rivier. Interesting history. Winston Churchill was captured during the Anglo-Boer War in 1899 and imprisoned in Pretoria. However, he escaped in December of that same year. But in doing so, he had to cross the “Mighty” Apies/Tshwane River.
@miatx6818 Жыл бұрын
Im dutch and you promounce Windhoek as Wind-Hook It was a 75% german colony and 25% dutch cuz dutch is still spoken there its an Dutch name
@murraytc4641 Жыл бұрын
I think you mean Afrikaans
@linkvos8151 Жыл бұрын
Windhoek is an Afrikaans name
@K3rrJu5t1n Жыл бұрын
Wind-ho-ek(not -ee)?
@linkvos8151 Жыл бұрын
@@K3rrJu5t1n Try Google Translate and listen to what the Afrikaans language will say
@K3rrJu5t1n Жыл бұрын
@@linkvos8151 I heard it's pronounced now as Wendhook
@springlink3188 Жыл бұрын
10:47 Did some searching, apparently Niamey is named, in the local Zarma language, after the Niami tree that grows there
@miatx6818 Жыл бұрын
Its actually kind of funny that Sierra Leone and Gabon have actually the same capital name but in different languages.
@biharek7595 Жыл бұрын
5:17 OMG, I've been to Brac!
@Plfd Жыл бұрын
cool
@josueveguilla9069 Жыл бұрын
YES, FINALLY!!!
@irishjet2687 Жыл бұрын
Do you have a source for the coat of arms for Bangui, CAR? I wanted to make a flag of it, but I can't find the image online, and now I don't know if it's real or not.
@hfugjfjvccjgj Жыл бұрын
Asmara, Eritrea oldest African capital continuously inhabited since 800 BC 💪🏽🇪🇷
@MissFade Жыл бұрын
I love this video! Also, for Côte D'Ivoire, its Baoulé (french spelling, look at colonizers influencing the spelling of native words, again) pronounced "bah-oo-lay" ! We also have two capitals: Yamoussoukro is administrative and political, and Abidjan is economic. One theory says that the city git its name from the Bidjan people living there, while another says that a woman replied "Min-tchan m’bidjan " (I'm cutting leaves) when the Europeans asked what the name of the place was. Obviously they heard and understood wrong, and that's how we got Abidjan!~
@leeuwevdh Жыл бұрын
Others have probably said this already, but Windhoek is not pronounced windho-ek. In Afrikaans (and Dutch) oe is a diphthong making a similar sound to oo in English (like in hook).
@polandballisthebestiluvpol8136 Жыл бұрын
Can you do a video about Middle Easts borders and how to draw them properly.
@khalidcabrero6204 Жыл бұрын
Jaguars in Guinea? That's a novelty. They're leopards. Locals happen to casually use the Portuguese term "onca" for them (same as the Brazilian term for jaguar), but they aren't actually jaguars.
@matthewwelsh294 11 ай бұрын
Ikr because where the heck there are jaguars in Africa 😂 😂
@TysonFMolemela 9 ай бұрын
First time hearing someone on KZfaq acknowledge my city of Bloemfontein as a capital city of South Africa
@EnderDeveloper Жыл бұрын
Minor correction: You showed the coat of arms of N’Djamena for Bangui, instead.
@rohankishibe8259 Жыл бұрын
Tunisian here and we ourselves don't know the meaning of our capital!
@hamzahammami22 Жыл бұрын
Wish the country was still called africa/Ifriqiya
@SabakuNoGaara2023 Жыл бұрын
فما أكثر من تفسير كيف ما قال إلي نعرفهم هوما أنو ترجع للآهة القرطاجية تانيت و فما إلي ما حكاش علاها و هي أنو الاسم جاي من تؤنس بالعربي
@ChrisFan890 Жыл бұрын
I'm going back to Italy soon...
@kealebogapoifo6703 Жыл бұрын
Batswana's coat of arms looks the best out of all of them
@MellohiYT Жыл бұрын
nahh bro what did you do to liberia in the thumbnail lmao
@BaneIstoricar Жыл бұрын
Next video needs to be when did snow last feel in africa and where in each country
@lawsonhellu4718 Жыл бұрын
In countries like Morocco Algeria or Lesotho it snows a lot there
@Algeriawindows69 Жыл бұрын
it does snow in Africa we are not just jungles and dessert we do have topography, rare but sometimes it does snow in the sahara not much and it snows constantly in the mountains
@lmnop286 Жыл бұрын
It snows on the tall mountains of Eastern, Northern and Southern Africa. Mount Kilimanjaro in East Africa is near the equator and has a snow cap. The low land areas of Northern and Southern Africa might ocassinally get light snow.
@springlink3188 Жыл бұрын
Early crew where you at?
@yoymate6316 Жыл бұрын
you spoke porto-novo too right to not speak portuguese. checked the about page and sure enough, it’s a portuguese channel. cheers from across the ocean~
@IK_MK Жыл бұрын
Ouagadougou is the most fun to say, change my mind
@Goozen12 Жыл бұрын
Nice toch with the city flags. But one thing about jaguars, I thought the live in the Americas
@ericbalzer1535 Жыл бұрын
Yup, Jaguars are native to the Americas not Africa. Maybe he confused jaguars with leopards?
@General.Knowledge Жыл бұрын
This is true! I was confused when researching as well, it must be leopards and the source on the etymology was wrong?
@0x0michael Жыл бұрын
those are country/nation flags not city flags!
@AllSeerAugustus Жыл бұрын
Damn.... Thanks for trying hey 😊 but Windhoek is not pronounced that way at all 😅☺️
@joshuataylor3550 Жыл бұрын
That's a problem not a solution
@scarymonster5541 Жыл бұрын
I feel like i found similarity about madagascar capital name Tanan(malagasy) tanah(malay) which mean land And rivo(malagasy) ribu(malay) Which also mean thousand
@BoloH. Жыл бұрын
During this video I sadly realized that I didn't know practically any of the capitals in African continent (except the obvious ones).
@WERTYUIO821 Жыл бұрын
8:53 What a colossal nose he has.
@northseapirate2313 Жыл бұрын
A wild guess but Lomé, Togo could be named after Henri Dupuy de Lôme, a famous French ship designer who developed the first ironclad battleship.
@williamk70 Жыл бұрын
Actually, the city was built where once stood a large field of "ALO" trees (used by the locals for dental care). Thus, the city was originally called "ALOTIMÉ" or "ALOMÉ" which means "Field of Alo trees". "Lomé" is just a French transcription of the local name Alomé.
@northseapirate2313 Жыл бұрын
@@williamk70 That’s interesting
@FilK79 Жыл бұрын
Regarding Brazzaville, please bear in mind that the entire coast of todays Croatia only became Croatian in 1945, before that was for centuries part of the Venetian, Sicilian, Napolitan, Serbian and Bizantine kingdoms. Within the Austro-Hungarian empire most of it was part of the DALMATIAN province which after WWI proclaimed unification with Kingdom of Serbia and subsequently the kingdom renamed to Yugoslavia. After WWII Tito gve much of Dalmatia to Croatia, but it would have made more sense to had became a 7th republic sice Dalmatians have a distinct identity and not all feel well about Croatia. The south for instance, specially Dubrovnik, was usually an outpost for commerce of kimgdom of Serbia, while Croatia lost its independence in 10 cemtury and regain it only in 1992, so Zagreb had little influence there. Of course, Croatia is doing its best nowadays to reclaim it all for them as if it was all theirs troughout history, but historiography indicates a very distinct reality. So please, remember, until 20c. DALMATIA WAS NOT CROATIA. Cumprimentos
@papazataklaattiranimam Жыл бұрын
Make video about history of Northern Africa
@Markus_Abrach Жыл бұрын
14:58 Maybe the city is called after New York, the city that never sleeps 😉
@stewmaker3983 Жыл бұрын
How about doing the origin and meaning of country names e.g. Nigeria, Niger Republic.
@alexpotts6520 Жыл бұрын
Pretty sure he's already done that one
@stewmaker3983 Жыл бұрын
@@alexpotts6520 General Knowledge put out uncorroborated information about the two states. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sKl9YMeDx56llok.html.
@General.Knowledge Жыл бұрын
I already did that! :)
@josueveguilla9069 Жыл бұрын
How each Oceanic Capital get its name?
@JKAV_76 Жыл бұрын
Can you cover the history of south Africa having three capitals, thats just weird
@jackmason5278 Жыл бұрын
Back when Zimbabwe was Rhodesia its capital was Salsbury. The natives overthrew the white government, changed the names of the country and capital, and made some VERY bad economic decisions. This resulted in hyperinflation. I suspect, but am not sure, that it is now under control.
@yoymate6316 Жыл бұрын
iirc part of their solution was to just… abolish local currency. they have something like six officially-used currencies now ranging from the us dollar to the australian dollar. idk if it’s true but i’ve heard that now it’s not uncommon to pay in a currency and get your change in another there. look it up
@Algeriawindows69 Жыл бұрын
0:33 the ir isn't supposed to be separated
@tommarch.4493 Жыл бұрын
you forgot the timestamp for Niamey
@roberths7282 Жыл бұрын
This video made me realise how little I know about the African continent
@hananaltair3563 Жыл бұрын
chads meaning is wrooooong najma means star in arabic
@ok-zi1cc Жыл бұрын
11:27 just want to say that layoune is actually moroccan because i went there so many times and people there say they are moroccans and there is moroccan flags so i guess western sahara doesnt have a capital also I like your videos
@MellohiYT Жыл бұрын
this is because the video is wrong. western sahara has two capitals. They claim laayoune to be their capital but morocco controls it. because of this, their functioning capital has to be tifariti.
@ok-zi1cc Жыл бұрын
@@MellohiYT ah thank you for telling me
@jnmsks6052 Жыл бұрын
Djibouti is the capital of Djibouti because Get Djibouti on the floor tonight, make my day. Sorry, that is what my brain tells me every time I hear or see the country's name.
@piyumalubayasiri2642 Жыл бұрын
Jaguars native to south america ...so how african native city name means somthing with jaguar ?(bissau)
@neeren777 Жыл бұрын
"The term Bissau comes from the name Itchassu (later N'nssassu and Bôssassum), which means "brave as the jaguar", possibly in reference to the warrior profile of the inhabitants of the island of Bissau, mimicking the African leopard, a feline predator known in the country as "jaguar".
@neeren777 Жыл бұрын
hope that explains it better!
@user-kv6fe1rf5d 7 ай бұрын
Mogadishu was named after persian and arabic word maqcad shah meaning the throne of shah of course the king throne
@thokim84 Жыл бұрын
Jaguars do not exist outside of zoos in Africa. They are an American species from Arizona to Argentina.
@yashabykhovsky2807 Жыл бұрын
Gitega etymology is not very well known. The most academics have gotten us a theoretical correlation to «Igi-tega» which means «Flat land» in Kirundi.
@rziguiaymen7519 Жыл бұрын
I can Add to this that the name of the continent "Africa" comes from the old name of the capital of Tunisia which was "Efrikiyah"
@abcede3897 Жыл бұрын
9:28 you said Antanarivo and it's AntanaNArivo
@zeeshuuveni8600 Жыл бұрын
Windhoek is pronounced as windhook. Hoek is an Afrikaans word meaning corner.
@PoliglotGeografi Жыл бұрын
Chad should change their capital name into gigachad on April the 20th for da memes
@DaisyGeekyTransGirl Жыл бұрын
King’s Tax for Luanda makes sense for today. I mean it’s bloody expensive especially for a poor country. You’d have an easier time buying things in countries that are poorer in fact (monetary wise; resource wise is another story).
@eamonahern7495 Жыл бұрын
I thought Abidjan was the capital of cote d'ivoire. I also thought timbuktu was the capital of Mali. I've only been to Nairobi Airport on my way to and from mombasa. I have spent time in Lusaka (amongst other places) on my two visits to Zambia in '06 and '07. What about Johannesburg? I thought it was that and not Cape Town that was one of the 3 capitals of South Africa. Perhaps I'm wrong.
@MissFade Жыл бұрын
Abidjan is the economic capital, and Yamoussoukro is the administrative and political capital!
@djiboutiballmappingandanim9318 Жыл бұрын
Bouti!!!!
@BuffaloTLK Жыл бұрын
GIVE BEAST PHILANTHROPY YOUR MERCH :)
@RobinHillyard 9 ай бұрын
I believe that Gaberone is pronounced with an "h" not a "g"
@mrjugurtha4077 Жыл бұрын
Algeria in Algerian dialect is dzayer or dziri it’s from the Berber dynasty of zirids hou ruled North Africa
@spinalobifida Жыл бұрын
How come some countries have 2 flags?
@thommunistmanifesto Жыл бұрын
one of them is the flag of the city/county and the other is the national flag
@dtikvxcdgjbv7975 Жыл бұрын
Ha, ha, ha, I did not know this! The capital of the Central African country is named after the Croatian island, for whose inhabitants is said that they are present everywhere, ha, ha, ha.
@henrybandola3453 Жыл бұрын
How each capitals of Americas ( North and South America) got its name
@connorpeacock2955 Жыл бұрын
Just so you know, Namibia's capital is pronounced "vind-hook." :)
@achourfreepalestine Жыл бұрын
the word algiers does not mean islands it is a name for those islands actually
@ThePanEthiopian Жыл бұрын
There are two capitals named free town
@General.Knowledge Жыл бұрын
Yes! One in French and one in English
@EnrichedUranium- Жыл бұрын
Noah-ark-shot
@dalecavallino4029 Жыл бұрын
6:16
@SANDYMILLER23 Жыл бұрын
How can a person find a land when people are already there. Explain.
@parmentier7457 Жыл бұрын
The names Windhoek and Bloemfontein come from Dutch and not from Afrikaans. Afrikaans is of course related to Dutch. Afrikaans did not become an official language in South Africa until 1925, before that it was Dutch. Bloemfontein in Afrikaans spelling is Blommefontein.
@TexasVagabond Жыл бұрын
I found it interesting that names that had roots in European languages were explained as being through the power and influence of colonizers, but the same was not said of the many names derived from Arabic.
@hamzahammami22 Жыл бұрын
To my knowledge arabs didn't actually colonize any part of Africa (other than the north but that's a very complicated subject) they just traded with a lot of african kingdoms especially along the south east coast, and when they came they influenced the place
@petergray7576 Жыл бұрын
@@hamzahammami22 Most of the East African cities with Arabic names were actually a kind of collateral from trade between the Red Sea (Egypt) and India. Because of the unique direction the equatorial wind reverses due to the Indian Monsoonal seasons, it was actually faster and easier for Arabic traders to cross the Indian Ocean between East Africa and India than by any other route. This led to semi-permanent coastal communities of Arab sailors in Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique being established, and the inhabitants paid taxes to local African kingdoms in tribute.
@TexasVagabond Жыл бұрын
@@hamzahammami22 Arabic colonization is complicated, but European colonization is not. Got it.
@hamzahammami22 Жыл бұрын
@@TexasVagabond I said complicated because genetically wise most north afrircans are not arabs, but many do identify as such because of linguistic and culture reasons
@TexasVagabond Жыл бұрын
@@hamzahammami22 I don’t think that justifies looking at Arabic colonization and European colonization in Africa differently. In the end, cities’ names based in European languages are just as foreign as those based in Arabic. That was my point.
@lolicantthinkofabettername3437 Жыл бұрын
Afrikaans is dutch with a few changes so I can confirm it's wind corner. 10:40 Idk how the pronunciation in Afrikaans is but if it's similar to Dutch, you absolutely butcher the name.
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