{"id":154226,"date":"2023-08-03T12:43:30","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T07:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=154226"},"modified":"2023-08-03T12:43:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T07:13:33","slug":"congo-was-named-by-europeans-congos-dictator-mobuto-later-changed-the-name-of-the-country-and-the-river-to-zaire-with-the-objective-of-africanising-names-of-persons-and-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/congo-was-named-by-europeans-congos-dictator-mobuto-later-changed-the-name-of-the-country-and-the-river-to-zaire-with-the-objective-of-africanising-names-of-persons-and-spaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Congo was named by Europeans. Congo\u2019s dictator Mobuto later changed the name of the country and the river to Zaire with the objective of Africanising names of persons and spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Q. Congo was named by Europeans. Congo\u2019s dictator Mobuto later changed the name of the country and the river to Zaire with the objective of Africanising names of persons and spaces. However, the name Zaire was a Portuguese alteration of <em>Nzadi o Nzere<\/em>, a local African term meaning \u2018River that swallows Rivers\u2019. Zaire was the Portuguese name for the Congo river in the 16th and 17th centuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which one of the following statements can be inferred from the paragraph above?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(A) Mobuto was not entirely successful in Africanising the name of his country<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(B) The term <em>Nzadi o Nzere <\/em>was of Portuguese origin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(C) Mobuto\u2019s desire to Africanise names was prevented by the Portuguese<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(D) As a dictator Mobuto ordered the Portuguese to alter the name of the river to Zaire<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ans: Mobuto was not entirely successful in Africanising the name of his country<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Solution:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the paragraph states, dictator Mobuto wanted to Africanise the name of Congo but could not succeed as the new given name to the country was the Portuguese alteration of some other term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q. Congo was named by Europeans. Congo\u2019s dictator Mobuto later changed the name of the country and the river to Zaire with the objective of Africanising names of persons and spaces. However, the name Zaire was a Portuguese alteration of Nzadi o Nzere, a local African term meaning \u2018River that swallows Rivers\u2019. Zaire was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":154230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5141],"tags":[5140],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-154226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gate","tag-gate-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154231,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154226\/revisions\/154231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154226"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=154226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}