Swaziland is dropping its colonial era name—it is now the Kingdom of eSwatini
Swaziland is no more. The tiny country between South Africa and Mozambique will now be known as the Kingdom of eSwatini. To mark the country’s 50 years of independence, King Mswati III announced on April 19 that Swaziland—an anglicized combination of the name of his people and, well, the word land—would henceforth be known as…