I'm from Guinea... The one in west Africa...hmmm right there are two of them there. So Guinea Conakry it is.<p>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".<p>"Only women here..." (word for women in Soso is Guinée) "distracting you while the men steal your boats"<p>So there you go, Guinée/Guinea means Women.