Africa’s last absolute monarch renames Swaziland as ‘eSwatini’
20 April 2018 |
12:59 pm
Swaziland’s King Mswati III, Africa’s last absolute monarch, said he was officially renaming the country as the Kingdom of eSwatini.
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