Bassa
- proper noun
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Bassa
- The town of Bassa in Nigeria has a rich cultural heritage and beautiful landscapes.
- Cahora Bassa
Examples
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Residents of Bassa, Liberia, celebrate their history with vibrant festivals every year.
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After all, FRELIMO had placed great importance on Cahora Bassa's economic potential.
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For a discussion of the role of ZAMCO, see Middlemas, Cabora Bassa.
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In short, they offer an alternative narrative of Cahora Bassa, whose overarching themes are about displaced people, displaced energy, and displaced memories.
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If implemented, this project would dramatically reduce the importance and value of Cahora Bassa, thereby putting new pressure on Lisbon to reconsider the sale price.
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State officials believed that privatization and cheap energy would lure foreign investment and that Cahora Bassa could provide the electricity for new plants and factories, stimulating rapid economic growth.
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For its part, Pretoria is anxious to continue to buy cheap power from Cahora Bassa to supplement ESKOM's largely coal-driven electricity supply, which is resold to numerous countries.
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Although the Cahora Bassa dam and reservoir are contained entirely within Mozambique, the vast bulk of the Zambesi drainage basin, the third-largest river system in Africa, lies outside the country.
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Until the debt was repaid, Portugal (under the auspices of hydroelectric company HCB) rather than the Mozambican state retained effective control over Cahora Bassa.
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Cahora Bassa is known for its vast hydroelectric power capabilities in Mozambique.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bassa is often used as the name of towns and regions because those places were where the Bassa people lived or were known, for example in Liberia and Nigeria. So a place called Bassa usually shows a connection to that people and their local history.
