Bongo.
nickname for Dar es Salaam: the largest city in Tanzania.
Meaning & usage
nickname for Dar es Salaam: the largest city in Tanzania.
nickname for Tanzania: a country in East Africa.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Bantu *bʊ̀jòngó Swahili bongoder. Swahili Bongo Derived from bongo (“brain”). Referring to the difficult conditions during the economic crisis of the 1980s which required one's own wits (having "big brains") to survive working in Dar es Salaam, later extended to all of Tanzania.
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