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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