Edime Yunusa

Personal Names as Repositories of Communal History and Circumstance among the Igala People of Kogi State

Abstract Personal names among African communities function as durable instruments of memory, holding within a single word the conflict, migration, reconciliation and communal occurrence that shaped the moment of a child's birth; this premise underlies the paper, Personal Names as...

Correcting Misrepresentation: Igala Names as Evidence Against External Narratives of Negative Meaning

Abstract Names are never neutral; they carry the weight of a people's culture, history, and self-understanding, yet unfamiliar names are routinely misread, diminished, or dismissed by those standing outside the culture that produced them. It is this problem that motivates this pa...

Personal Names as Repositories of Communal History and Circumstance among the Igala People of Kogi State

Abstract Personal names among African communities function as durable instruments of memory, holding within a single word the conflict, migration, reconciliation and communal occurrence that shaped the moment of a child's birth; this premise underlies the paper, Personal Names as...

Correcting Misrepresentation: Igala Names as Evidence Against External Narratives of Negative Meaning

Abstract Names are never neutral; they carry the weight of a people's culture, history, and self-understanding, yet unfamiliar names are routinely misread, diminished, or dismissed by those standing outside the culture that produced them. It is this problem that motivates this pa...