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Just wondering why someone would abandon his father's name or say Family name for his community name...
e. g Someone Bares the name
Sokoto, Alkaleri,

raphretle:
Just wondering why someone would abandon his father's name or say Family name for his community name...
e. g Someone Bares the name
Sokoto, Alkaleri,

The ways of abokis are different from other nigerians

Aboks:
The ways of abokis are different from other nigerians

Until the French Normans conquered England in 1066, the English did not use surnames.
It would be John from York or Peter from Winchester, etc.

Among Africans use of surname is relatively new too. It came with colonialism properly.

With Islam Africans began using X ibn Y, Y bint Z for a daughter or A Dan B, M bin N, etc.

So I guess up North affiliation to city or town of origin was perhaps for some still important.

Remember too that aristocrats or founders do historically bear names of their domains or even founded towns and gave their name to the villages or towns in the beginning. Their descendants can still be bearing such names. Some at least.

raphretle:
Just wondering why someone would abandon his father's name or say Family name for his community name...
e. g Someone Bares the name
Sokoto, Alkaleri,

the name of a place can also be the name of a person. Afterall names of places are named after people. Some people bear their community name because the name of their community is the name of their forefathers, which means their community was named after their great great grandfather or so.

I don't think people just wake up and adopt community names, if they do i am not aware of such practice.

I know of a man who comes from a place and he bears the name of that place, he's from the north and his family grew so big that they had to name the place after them. I believe they also intermarried.

It happens Sha