African names were didactic, depicted beauty, an important event, or calamity — like The Year of the Locust — or a famine. That’s because virtually all Black African names meant something. African names were didactic, depicted beauty, an important event, or calamity — like The Year of the Locust — or a famine. White Europeans, Indians, Arabs, or Chinese don’t carry Black African names. Today there aren’t colonial missionaries to force us to swallow European names under the guise of Christianity.

Source: Daily Nation July 25, 2020 20:37 UTC