Speculation that India might rename itself is reaching fever pitch – and it's not the only country considering a change of moniker. In fact, a number of nations around the globe are currently ...

Look at a world map, and all those bold borders and country names seem permanent. They aren’t. The geography we memorized in school is written in pencil. Countries can change names for reasons ranging ...

More recently, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger moved French to the background and made local languages like Hausa and Bambara official. Rwanda switched from French to English to better connect with the ...

Names are symbolic and significant. In fact, in Yorubaland (home to one of Nigeria's dominant tribes), names are considered powerful enough to shape the trajectory of one’s life. Colonial rule swept ...

Ten years sounds like nothing in the global scheme of things. But for some countries, a single decade is enough to completely ...