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King Mswati III of Swaziland proclaims his nation will be henceforth known as Boogie Wonderland


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2018 Apr 20, 4:13am   1,422 views  4 comments

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NAIROBI — King Mswati III of Swaziland is an absolute monarch, so what he says goes. But over the course of his 32-year rule, he has mostly gained international attention for how he has spent the royal treasury. While his populace is one of the poorest in the world, and has the highest rate of HIV in the world, King Mswati III has fleets of luxury vehicles, two private planes, and dozens of wives.

But the king's powers are not limitless. A new constitution, signed by Mswati in 2005, reiterates that Swaziland is an absolute monarchy, but it bars ruling by decree.

That makes his most recent pronouncement — uttered from a stage where he and international dignitaries and thousands of dancers celebrated both his and his kingdom's 50th birthdays — a little complicated.

“We no longer shall be called Swaziland from today forward,” the Associated Press quoted the king as having said. Instead, Swaziland would go the way of Lesotho and Botswana, naming itself in its local language, after its main ethnic group: eSwatini, or “land of the Swati” in the siSwati language that is predominant in the landlocked, southern African kingdom.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/04/20/king-mswati-iii-of-swaziland-proclaims-his-nation-will-be-henceforth-known-as-eswatini/?utm_term=.d35992164bd5
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1   Ceffer   2018 Apr 20, 10:42am  

It's a quaint language. "Entrepreneur" translates into "Warlord" and "Startup" translates into "Evolving Armed Faction". Progress is so gratifying to watch.
3   Ceffer   2018 Apr 20, 2:07pm  

His advisors had to restrain him from renaming it "Chicagoland".
4   Strategist   2018 Apr 20, 3:10pm  

It's good to be King.

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