Bonus: How Did Nigeria Get Its Name?

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  For the bonus segment for our West African show,

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  I wanted to give you some things that I couldn't get in for time in the body of the episode itself.

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  One of those things is the Niger, or you might think of it as the Niger River.

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  Have you ever thought about the fact that there are two countries,

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  Nigeria and Niger, or Niger as some people sometimes call it?

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  And you might think that where those countries get their names is something colonial and highly unfortunate.

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  You might think that Nigeria means basically Blackia and that that's what Niger means too.

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  You know, that's actually not true.

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  And many people from those countries think that.

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  You might think that.

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  But actually,

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  it isn't from the Latin slash romance word for black and then with shades of a word that I need not mention,

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  etc. Actually.

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  There's a Berber language.

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  Remember the Afroasiatic show?

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  And so Afroasiatic has six subfamilies.

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  Semitic is one of them and the best known.

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  Then there are the Berber languages.

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  Berber is a subfamily.

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  One of the Berber languages, Tarek,

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