Bill and Hillary Clinton both admire Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan — but for different reasons.

At a U.N. AIDS meeting Thursday, the former U.S. president shared the stage with the Nigerian leader, who was dressed in the traditional caftan and black bowler hat of his Niger Delta home.

Clinton congratulated Jonathan on his recent election.

"We wish you well," Clinton said. "I can tell you the secretary of state tells me your hats are always cool."

The ministers, diplomats, AIDS activists and VIPs at the meeting burst into laughter and then applauded loudly.

"And I envy your name," Clinton went on to more laughter. "If I'd had a name like Goodluck I might still be in office."

ekt_bear:

Ebelechukwu Azikwe are his other names, maybe he should have used those ones

biachwest:

That joke could only be refered to as an  insult   before u few guys,but believe me majority of wis and todays men and women wouldnt refer those joke as an insult.
U guys are so  weird.
This is 21 centuary.

ekt_bear:

Ebelechukwu Azikwe are his other names, maybe he should have used those ones

Seun:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5hVJrqix2AWRpjKtUp5VEXkOdJlmw?docId=7108335

ekt_bear:

Ebelechukwu Azikwe are his other names, maybe he should have used those ones  

dem_people:

The day Africans will collectively see the immense beauty in their culture, is the day of their mental liberation. If I were GEJ, I would've changed my names (Goodluck & Jonathan) to Ijaw names but I guess such people really don't have the intelligence to think critically about such things.

Personally, I don't have any other names except Igbo. I very much feel like a walking reflection of my culture.

And yes, just like Andre Uweh wrote, I also admire the yorubas for mostly sticking to their ethnic names. I love it when I see a full Nigerian name devoid of western or arab influence.

alj_harem:

why can't he use Ebelechukwu Azikwe, is it not part of his name

and moreover that is more nigerian than jonathan,

dem_people:

The day Africans will collectively see the immense beauty in their culture, is the day of their mental liberation. If I were GEJ, I would've changed my names (Goodluck & Jonathan) to Ijaw names but I guess such people really don't have the intelligence to think critically about such things.

Personally, I don't have any other names except Igbo. I very much feel like a walking reflection of my culture.

And yes, just like Andre Uweh wrote, I also admire the yorubas for mostly sticking to their ethnic names. I love it when I see a full Nigerian name devoid of western or arab influence.

Andre Uweh:

One of the reasons I like the Yoruba's is because they cherish their surnames so much. It will be rare to find a Yoruba man with a foreign surname.Perhaps only 2% of them.
But go to Bayelsa and Rivers states, it is voluminous.

ezeagu:

Andre Uweh I'm surprised, I've heard about the grass being greener on the other side, but I wouldn't expect someone like you to say such an incorrect thing about Nigeria. The same Yoruba people with names like Crowther, George and Wellington?

ezeagu:

Andre Uweh I'm surprised, I've heard about the grass being greener on the other side, but I wouldn't expect someone like you to say such an incorrect thing about Nigeria. The same Yoruba people with names like Crowther, George and Wellington? 2%? Really?

EzeUche!:

Were they not the descendant of Krios?

sbeezy8:


see lula?
[img]http://haaren.files./2011/01/jonathan-and-lula2.jpg[/img]

thats ifferent they are descendants of former slaves- n surnames did not exist back then.

ezeagu:

Andre Uweh I'm surprised, I've heard about the grass being greener on the other side, but I wouldn't expect someone like you to say such an incorrect thing about Nigeria. The same Yoruba people with names like Crowther, George and Wellington?

EzeUche!:

Just imagine? Would my favorite Brazilian president ever do that to an Abacha, Yar'Adua or even an Obasanjo?

Andre Uweh:

Yea, only two percent of the Yorubas still retain those colonial names. They are found mostly in Lagos where the recaptives settled.
But believe me, amongst all the ethnic groups in Nigeria, Yorubas bear their cultural names more than any group. Hausas and Ijaws are the worst.

psykoV:

Hey,
THE DAY OUR "CULTURE" BEGINS TO REPRESENT US ALL & NOT JUST THE FEW "nomenklatura"S AMONGST US, THEN I WE CAN START TALKING AND TAKING IN "REFLECTIONS".
I LIVE IN NIGERIA MATE, & I LIVE DAILY WITH THE STRUGGLE OF JUST HOLDING THE SHREDS OF MY HOPES, DREAMS & AMBITIONS TOGETHER IN A COUNTRY THAT JUST DOESN'T GIVE A be intimate with ABOUT THE COMMON MAN. AND I'M SURE SEVERAL MILLION NIGERIANS AGREE WITH ME.

I'M PLEASED THAT YOU FIND YOURSELF AT ONE WITH 9JA BUT HEY, WE ALL CAN'T BE YOU.

SAID MY PIECE. OUT.

ezeagu:

Please reomve Yar'Adua's name. Not to insult him, but he wasn't exactly the center of attention in those meetings he attended with his pyjamas.

ezeagu:

I was actually told that in order to fit into the Krio elite in Lagos and other urban areas, many native Yoruba changed their surnames to European, Krio sounding names. I don't think someone like Bode George descended from Krio's, although I could be wrong.

EzeUche!:

They still would not be insulting Yar'Adua though. The people in the West seem to be wary of Muslims.

sbeezy8:

totally not true infact it was the other way around many krios aside from the ones who kept their name changed their slave names to yoruba names and married into indigenous royal families to be accepted.

alakija a prominent family in lagos orignally had the name Assumpacio'

Herbert Macaulay was an unlikely champion of the masses. A grandson of Ajayi Crowther, the first African bishop of the Niger Territory, he was born into a Lagos that was divided politically into groups arranged in a convenient pecking order – the British rulers who lived in the posh Marina district, the Saros and other slave descendants who lived to the west, and the Brazilians who lived behind the whites in the Portuguese Town. Behind all three lived the real Lagosians, the masses of indigenous Yoruba people, disliked and generally ignored by their privileged neighbours. It was not until Macaulay’s generation that the Saros and Brazilians even began to contemplate making common cause with the masses.