Test Academy | Congo was named by Europeans. Congo’s dictator Mobuto later changed the name of the country and the river to Zaire with the objective of Afticanising names of persons and spaces. However, the name Zaire was a Portuguese alteration of N=adi o Nzere, a local African term meaning ‘River that swallows Rivers’. Zaire was the Portuguese name for the Congo river in the 16th and 17th centuries. ‘Which one of the following statements can be inferred from the paragraph above? Mobuto was not entirely successful in Africanising the name of his country , The term N-adi o Nzere was of Portuguese origin , Mobuto’s desire to Africanise names was prevented by the Portuguese , As a dictator Mobuto ordered the Portuguese to alter the name of the river to Zaire

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Congo was named by Europeans. Congo’s dictator Mobuto later changed the name of the country and the river to Zaire with the objective of Afticanising names of persons and spaces. However, the name Zaire was a Portuguese alteration of N=adi o Nzere, a local African term meaning ‘River that swallows Rivers’. Zaire was the Portuguese name for the Congo river in the 16th and 17th centuries. ‘Which one of the following statements can be inferred from the paragraph above?

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Mobuto was not entirely successful in Africanising the name of his country
The term N-adi o Nzere was of Portuguese origin
Mobuto’s desire to Africanise names was prevented by the Portuguese
As a dictator Mobuto ordered the Portuguese to alter the name of the river to Zaire

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