Specifically, the word is a feminine noun in its singular form. The same may be said for the Italian nâ¦oun nona (ninth), which also may function as a feminine singular adjective according to context. The pronunciation will be NON-na in terms of the person and NO-na in terms of the musical/numerical term.
The name Serengeti is an approximation of the word used by the Maasai to describe the area, siringet, which means the place where the land runs on forever. The first Briton to enter the Serengeti, Stewart Edward White, recorded his explorations in the northern Serengeti in 1913.
Seretse Khama, born in 1921, was the chief-in-waiting of the powerful Bangwato, among the larger of several Botswana tribes. His father had died when he was four, and the regent was his uncle Tshekedi Khama. At the time, Botswana was a British protectorate, known as Bechuanaland.