“African countries on getting independence reverted to their ancient names before they were colonised,” he told the crowd, according to Agence France-Presse. “So from now on, the country will be officially be known as the Kingdom of eSwatini.”
As the news service notes, eSwatini means “place of the Swazi” in the Swazi language — effectively the same meaning as its predecessor, except without relying on the mashup of Swazi and English that composes the name Swaziland.
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