Discuss “Barack Obama by any other name should smell just as sweet”
In 2000, when I initially moved back to the United States after living in Nigeria, everyone knew me as Bukola. During school registration I was given the option of choosing which name to go by, and I chose Bukola, my middle name, because it is the name I had been referred to by family and friends all my life. I was very proud of my name because Olubukola means “God has added to my wealth” in Yoruba. Bukola is as popular in Yoruba towns as Ashley or Emily is in the United States. Bukola, however, did not run smoothly off the tongues of my high school classmates. They called me everything from “Buquisha” to “Coca Cola.”
The naming process in the Yoruba culture is extensive. My deceased grandfather meditated on the name Olubukola...
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