Barack Obama
Naming after a prominent personality or family member
In some parts of Africa, naming a child after a prominent and popular personality is quite popular. So many mothers in Kenya named their boys after Barack Obama when he was the ruling president of the U.S. A family spoke out on why they named their child Donald Trump citing reasons that they liked his principles thus informing their choice of name.
In other cultures, male children get the tag “junior” as part of their name due to the inheritance of their father or grandfather’s name. For some, it is not just the name tag but it is believed that the children are incarnates of an older relative, dead or alive.
Those children are described as “Ababio” in Ghana meaning “the returnee”. In southern Africa, children are given the name “Ouma” to mean Grandmother or “Oupa” for Grandfather.
