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African American Names And Their Meanings

Ogunleye, Tolagbe
Price: US:$12.95 / Canada:$17.95
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Dr.Ogunleye attempts to enrich the lives and realities of contemporary African Americans by recording, and many times, assigning meanings to the innovative names they have given to their children.

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Welcome to Cowrie Publishing Company's web site. This site features our first book by Dr. Tolagbe M. Ogunleye entitled African American Names And Their Meanings.

What the book offers

Dr.Ogunleye attempts to enrich the lives and realities of contemporary African Americans by recording, and many times, assigning meanings to the innovative names they have given to their children.

Using the cultural and historical experiences of African Americans as well as numerous west and southern African languages, she defines approximately two thousand unique names African Americans have bestowed upon their children. The meanings ascribed to these names inspire pride, confidence, and hope in the individual so named, his or her family, and African American people.

This book also provides its readers with an historical overview of the naming practices of African Americans dating back to the Holocaust of Enslavement.

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