S2 E9: One country, Two independences, Four baptisms...and Bob Marley!
What if you were asked to rename certain African countries? thoseAfrican cities that still carry, their colonial names.. It is as if France was to bear a name chosen under German occupation during the second World war.
The small village of N'Tamo for example, renamed Brazzaville by explorer Savorgnan de Brazza, has never recovered its original name. Fortunately, its twin city on the other side of the river, recovered its real name Kinshasa (originally Nshasha) erasing from the maps, Leopoldville, which paid tribute to Leopold the secong King of Belgium, a man who never stepped his foot in Congo, but whose abuses there, have horrified his own people.
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