I'm from Guinea... The one in west Africa...hmmm right there are two of them there. So Guinea Conakry it is. I don't know the Western origin of the word Guinea

I'm from Guinea... The one in west Africa...hmmm right there are two of them there. So Guinea Conakry it is. I don't know the Western origin of the word Guinea but I remember someone jokingly telling a story when we were kids. He used to say when the french colonists docked at the coast, they saw nobody. They went deep into the land and found a river. On that river, they saw women washing their clothes. "What do you call this land?" The french asked. The word land sounded like their word for "men". "Only women here..." (word for women in Soso is Guinée) "distracting you while the men steal your boats" So there you go, Guinée/Guinea means Women.