Diamba culture/language/diamba.md
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*Diamba* is a word for cannabis from western Central Africa. It is heard today in Angola, … tes as "tobacco", probably because they did not know or care what Africans were smoking. East of Sierra Leone the same word family runs in a patch from Côte d'Ivoire to Senegal, in non-Bantu languages whose cognates kept the initial *j* sound commonly written *diamba*. An [1859 record of *diamba* as tobacco in Senegambia](/history/gambia-1859-tobacco-record- … utes of the slave trade: from Angola to Brazil, and from a captured ship to Sierra Leone.
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