23/03/2026
Are you aware that the Ijos employ the term 'nama' to denote beast, animal or meat, a term that is extensively utilized across numerous African cultures and languages, including Ijo, Hausa, Swahili, Setswana, Sesotho, Bemba, Zulu, and Xhosa, to denote animal protein or food. This, apart from been indicative of a shared linguistic root where nama is referred to as beast, meat or animal protein across diverse African cultures, and transcending geographical boundaries encompassing west, east, and south Africa countries, it suggest cultures and languages where the word is used in this way as some of the oldest tribes in Africa?
