The word “Negus” was the title given to the King of Abyssinia (Ethiopia), from Amharic “negush” meaning “king”, stemming from “nagasha” which means “he forced, ruled”. “Nagasha” is also not related to the word “Naga”, and “Naga” is not related to the word “Nigga”. “Naga” is of Sanskrit origin meaning “serpent, snake”. “Naga” in Japanese means “long”; I bring that point up just to demonstrate that just because a word means something in one language (Naga meaning “snake” in Sanskrit) doesn’t mean that meaning carries over when a word with a similar sound is spoken in another language (Naga meaning “long” in Japanese. Hebi means “snake” in Japanese).

“Nigga” obviously derives from “N*gg*r” which itself derives from an earlier Scottish and English dialect “Neger” which in turns derives from the French word “Nègre” which derives from the Spanish word “Negro”. Hence where you get the word “Negroes” from. The Spanish word “Negro” which anyone who knows some Spanish knows it means “black”, comes from the Latin word “Nigrum” which in turn means “black, dark”. People often point to the Niger River or Nigeria as some sort of justification but these are not native names. Dr. Ben-Jochannan has already shown that the names used in Africa today are not native.

The Niger River was called that by Europeans, in native African tongues it is called Jeliba (Manding language), Orimiri (Igbo language), Egerew n-Igerewen (Tuareg language), Isa Ber (Songhay langauage), Kwara (Hausa language), and Oya (Yoruba language). Niger is not the name used in any of the native African languages, so the argument that we used the word Niger to mean “king, god, etc” is dead.

This is why studying history and etymology is important when looking at the origin of words. Don’t let these pseudo-“conscious” folks fool you.