What's in a name - Ask Africa

In 1840, a Scottish man, David Livingstone arrived in Africa at the age of 27, and went on to become the greatest explorers of the continent, discovering the Victoria falls in current day Zimbabwe. However, his naming of the Victoria falls was only a precursor to what the continent had to see in the coming century. This week, Utsav takes you on a rapid history of names in Africa, and helps you decode the reasons why renaming places is a complicated, slippery issue. Tune in, as we sweep through Nigeria in the West, Sierra Leone in the east to Bombay and Allahabad in India and understand the politics of renaming places.

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