Main Greetings in Africa

As a people living in a society, it is very important to greet people in a polite way, as people who don't greet in the community are considered rude and ill-mannered. this is how "hello" is said in the some african languages Angola Portuguese: Bom Dia (Good Morning), Boa tarde (Good afternoon), Boa noite (Good evening) Botswana Setswana: Dumela mma/rra (to woman/man) English: Hello Burkina Faso French: Bonjour Dioula: in-i-che Cameroon French: Bonjour English: Hello (in the west of Cameroon) Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) French: Bonjour Dioula: in-i-che Egypt Arabic: salaam aleikum English: Hello Ethiopia Amharic: teanastellen English: Hello Gabon French: Bonjour Ghana Twi: ah-kwah-bah Ga: meeng-gah-bou (spoken in the capital Accra) Hausa: sannu (spoken in northern Ghana) English: Hello Kenya Swahili: Salama/Jambo English: Hello Lesotho South Sotho: Lumela English: Hello Libya Arabic: salaam aleikum Madagascar Malagasy: Salama French: Bonjour Mauritania Arabic: salaam aleikum Hassaniya: sa-la-mah ah-lay-kum Morocco Arabic: Arabic: salaam aleikum French: Bonjour Mozambique Portuguese: Bom Dia (Good Morning), Boa tarde (Good afternoon), Boa noite (Good evening) Mali French: Bonjour Bambara: i-ni-cheh Tamashek: met-al-ee-khah(Tuareg language) Malawi Chichewa: Moni English: Hello Namibia Afrikaans: Hallo Damara/Nama: !gai//oas (spoken in the south and southeast) Herero/Himba: Tjike (spoken in the north central and northwest) English: Hello Nigeria Hausa: sannu Igbo: ee-bow-lah-chee(southeastern Nigeria) Yoruba: bah-oh English: Hello French: Bonjour Rwanda French: Bonjour Senegal French: Bonjour Fulfulde: no ngoolu daa Wolof: na nga def South Africa Zulu: Sawubona Xhosa: Molo Afrikaans: Hallo English: Hello Sudan Arabic: salaam aleikum Swaziland Swati: Sawubona English: Hello Tanzania Swahili: Salama/Jambo English: Hello Togo French: Bonjour Tunisia French: Bonjour Arabic: salaam aleikum Uganda Swahili: Salama/Jambo English: Hello Zambia English: Hello Bemba: Muli shani Zimbabwe English: Hello Shona: Mhoroi Ndebele: Sawubona