NAIROBI, Kenya — 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 ...
I had a home in Africa near the base of the looming Sebibi Rock. The Tropic of Capricorn runs across the Great Escarpment 500km to the north, and our sprawling house on a hillside close to the ...
THE king of an African country has abruptly changed his nation’s name — because he said it sounded too much like Switzerland. King Mswati III made the surprise announcement on Wednesday that the ...
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In the week of Swaziland’s annual Reed Dance, tens of thousands of virgin girls trek across the southern African kingdom to the Queen Mother’s royal residence, Ludzidzini. On the banks of the Little ...
The prospect of changing a country's name may seem like a rather daunting undertaking, but not for the king of Swaziland. King Mswati III declared the country will now be known as the Kingdom of ...
“In traditional Swazi society,” Swaziland’s King Sobhuza II once observed, “a latecomer often gets the best cut of meat.” As Britain’s last colonial claim on the African continent except for breakaway ...