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African Identity: Nigerians And Their Foreign Names by Heazy2015(m): 5:40am On Sep 07, 2015 |
The point of this post is not to convince anyone to feel bad about
their foreign name, but to demonstrate how odd and sometimes
funny we African look to outsiders when introducing ourselves
as Bright Simon. The first questions that arise from that observation are as follows: are African names so inferior that we need “superior” European names to feel modern or civilized? Is that a mandatory ticket to modernity? See for yourself To prove that oddness, I’ve conducted a social experiment, asking a handful of Nigerians to react to the following list of names, where I mixed Igbo first names with Hausa and Yoruba surnames, and vice versa. Here is the list of names. Now, go through, and tell us how it makes you feel.
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Re: African Identity: Nigerians And Their Foreign Names by Nobody: 5:50am On Sep 07, 2015 |
Hmmm |
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