Barack Obama may have found it a difficult name to grow up with, but the same won't be true for the many babies starting to be given that name. Other parents are being inspired to use Obama, which is a common surname among the Luo people of East Africa meaning "to lean or bend."...
There’s a chance, albeit ever so slight, such knowledge can help youimpress a guy or girl. Who can’t help but fall in love with someone who can readily reel off an alphabetically ordered list of African animal names! What? Doesn’t everybody love such incredible animal knowledge? Here...
Griffin’s bird-mom, Irene Pepperberg—a Harvard psychologist and co-author of the new paper—previously taught the parrot to reproduce some 30 English words and to comprehend at least 40, including the names of colors. As such, Griffin didn’t need any special coaching to learn the Shell ...
Warthogs are common prey for plenty of predators but they can defend themselves, so don’t get too close to them on a safari. Bonus: Found the nickname Pumbaa interesting? There are several other animals from the Lion King with names derived from African languages. Check out this article ...
since experienced,served only to rivet and record; for,whether the love of one's country be real or imaginary,or a lesson of reason,or an instinct of nature,I still look back with pleasure on the first scenes of my life,though that pleasure has been for the most part mingled with ...
the answers were cruel and strange.When she arrived at the place,Pheoby Watson didn't go in by the front gate and down the palm walk to the front door.She walked around the fence corner and went in the intimate gate with her heaping plate of mulatto rice.Janie must be round that ...
and even death. They discovered Lakes Tanganyika and Victoria and became the first white people to encounter the kingdoms of Buganda and Bunyoro. Jeal weaves the story with authentic new detail—and examines the tragic unintended legacy of the Nile search that still casts a long shadow over the...
…What’s most ironic about Jones, who names herself after 19th-century civil-rights leader Ida B. Wells, is that the historic figure was a champion of the Second Amendment. She maintained…“that a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used...
Names presented below are pseudonyms and some identifying details have been changed or obscured to protect confidentiality. Participants’ preferred pronouns were used in their descriptions. Chronic poverty, financial insecurity, and financial insufficiency Participants noted that the inability to meet basic ...
If the Bank accounts of the Presiding Judge in those countries names don’t exist or never existed let her come out and sue me for defamation...Read On>>> The Election of the AU Chair Person was "a disaster in waiting' and most of us felt that International NGOs has infiltrated some ...