Do Africans Really This

The prime-minister of Japan got into a bit of hot water a couple of years ago for publicly making fun of ex-Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo's name and stating that Africans as a whole have some Odd, funny names.

@girlj22
please don't even start the african bashing as well,i v been reading your past comments and they make a lot of sense so don't spoil  it all by demeaning yourself with this kind of silly topic
first i don't know why an african will say aa name sounds funny seeing as they normally have english names and a large part of africa have english as their second language,so unless ur talking about the francophone nations of africa and even if people saqy some aa names sound funny it wont be a sweeping generalization because majority of aa have english names
yes and so do the japanese,chinese,mongolian names sound funny and so do they have odd funny names too and I'm sure thats prolly why not many people heard the incident you r on about because its not holding much water coming from an oriental/far eastern

girl22 seriously needs to get a life ^{i wonder how old she is}

of course people's names are going to sound funny to outsiders.

 and your talking about jobs? i bet you an african with an african name will get a job before your shaniqua's and delonte's.


DUH! this is not new to us. we know they make fun of our names and so.

^{seriously, how old are we, some african on the streets(not on nairaland) talk about AA and you come here to pick out our flaws.}

Does African American names have any meaning??

Example

Sheniqua
Tamika
Shaquala
Shandra
Letoya
Tanya

Every Nigerian name has a meaning

yes, all these names have meaning.

You should ask for the meaning, instead of assuming they have none.

The point is the same way how AA names sound funny, Some Nigerian names sound funny also. So there should be no reason to make fun of AA names. Once it appeal to them, it don't matter what U think of it.

And you claim to be from Liberia ? 

You really are an idiot.

You are a disgrace to your fatherland for writing a post like that. I guess your being in America has sucked up every ounce
of common sense in you.

A true african knows all african names have meanings. All those names you, SeanT21 listed, are african names with
meanings.

I pardon the likes of girl22 and Hero; they are simply ignorant. They expect someone from africa to have an english
sounding name like thompson, which is not possible because we are from a different part of the world. All one
needs is a 5th grade education to realize this.

But for you SeanT21, who claims to be from Liberia, to write down Nigerian names and ask a redundant question
as to whether they have any meanings, it just tells me you are completely lost and don't know your roots.

 

maxell, you will have to forgive her.  she's naturally stupid.

shaniqua must be a popular name on NL. when u think AA name, the first one on the list is shaniqua.

another one, lol, i should keep track of how many times sheniqua's been used. so far on this post only, about 5.

you actually started by mentioning name meanings.

okay but your response to her didn't make sense because she asked do aa name's have meaning and you reponded do nigerian names have meaning. of course our names have meaning but i wouldn't know it aa names have meaning because i do not know about their names origin.

AAs KNOW ALL AFRICAN NAMES HAVE MEANING. after they ask me my name the question that always follows is what does it mean, but if they tell you their name is shaquanda or donte and then u ask them what it means, a lot of them will tell you , i don't know, or my mother and father combined their names.

like what?

Barrack-arabic name
Michelle- french and english
Amber-
Darius- bible name
Fatima- arabic name
Felicia-
Gloria- spanish name
Alicia-
Aaliyah- arabic name
Kenya- typica
Danielle- french name
Briana- english name
Brittany- european name
Bree- short from of some names like briana and brittany



i know that but they point at first was what do they mean? the non "ghetto names" are mostly names that are from other places.