Any systems or stations with ties to Africa?

So I know of New Africa in Epsilon Indi but I was wondering if their are any other bodies, systems or stations that have names related to Africa?

Mandela Orbital, King Shaka Outpost, New Durban, New Gabarone, Maasai Relay, Serengeti Hub... anything like that?
 
Not a lot that I can see.

There's quite a lot of Egyptian-influenced naming (though ancient rather than modern) for systems and I think also stations.

As for the rest of the continent, nothing obvious - none of your examples match anything. Thinking about how station and system names have been chosen, there are very few named after cities, nations or political figures [1] - scientists, astronauts or scifi authors are more common, and might be an easier place to start looking.

(Someone had a project to list who each "X Hub" station might be named after, but I can't remember who or where...)

There are procedural system names which sound "generic African" in the same way that some of them sound "generic Asian" or "generic European", but that's asking for a couple of transliterated syllables to do a lot of work and they're probably mostly no closer to actual words than somewhere like "Langloines" is to being a believable English word.

[1] The exceptions - e.g. the stations around Earth, or "Birminghamworld", or indeed "New Africa" - I think are all ones inherited from the FE2/FFE non-procedural names, which were perhaps chosen to very different requirements.

Edit: For Nobel Prize winners, there are stations named:
...Zewail, probably after Ahmed Hussain Zewail, Egyptian, Chemistry
...Lessing, maybe after Doris Lessing, Zimbabwean, Literature
...Cormack, maybe after Alan Cormack, South African, Medicine
...and a single Camus Orbiter probably named after Albert Camus, Algerian, Literature
 
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I'm pretty sure I saw a Carthage system once, which was a historical city in North Africa. But not much in the way of stations or outposts.
 
The Inara website shows no less than 16 stations, outposts, and planetary settlements named after the Nigerian-American science fiction author Nnedi Okorafor.
 
IIRC there's an outpost or planetary port named after Gustav Nachtigal, maybe not the most glorious tie to Africa, but it is one. (edit) According to EDDB, that name seems to be used as a general naming prefix.
 
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We should also have at least one outpost with lots of flashing lights with the name "Funky Town". If it's big enough to use the docking computer, instead of the Blue Danube you'd hear "Funky Town".

If landing at New Delhi Station, the docking computer should play the Blue Danube but using a sitar.

Landing at Serengeti Hub should get the Blue Danube using a full African choir chanting it in the background in Swahili.
 
There are a bunch of systems with names that sound southern African. Ngaliba, Mbukuravi and Kokoimudji come to mind.
 
I am surprised that there are no traffic controllers with accents from African regions. (Actually we could do with a much larger range of accents altogether.)
 
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