Etymological map of Africa. I particularly like ‘He Who Talks too Much’ (Lalibela. Ethiopia), ‘It has Sunk’ (Dodoma, Tanzania), and ‘Chief Who never Sleeps’ (Harare. Zimbabwe) ht Ranil Dissanayake
Duncan Green
This is a conversational blog written and maintained by Duncan Green, strategic adviser for Oxfam GB and author of ‘From Poverty to Power’. This personal reflection is not intended as a comprehensive statement of Oxfam's agreed policies.
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Lightened my Monday morning. I could spend hours looking at that map. In fact, I am. How descriptive, evocative, tantalising…..how wonderful for there to be a city “Where People Get Honour And Respect”.
Ha! Love that Luanda is ‘Sandbank with Value’ – given the oil and prices there that seems quite prescient…
Reminds me of a place marked on a map of Lakes in South Sudan close to where I was working in the early 80s. The 1:250,000 series was heavily based on surveying by Condominium officials in the 1930s. Out there in floodplains was Panerda. Which translates as “My maternal uncle’s place”. One can clearly reconstruct the conversation through an interpreter…