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Week-day names are also common in other West African ethnic groups such as the Akan, Hausa, Igbo and several others. Children may also be assigned names according to the time of the day of which they were born. [3] For example, a male child born at night is named Okon and a female child born at night is named Nko or Nkoyo. [3]
Reuben Chirambo (d. 2011), scholar of African literature [23] Robert Chiwamba, poet [24] Tobias Dossi, author of a novel (1958) and humorous short stories (1965) in Chichewa. [25] Aloysius Dziko, author of a novel in Chichewa (1965). [25] Walije Gondwe (b. 1936), Malawi's first female novelist [26] John Gwengwe, author of novels in Chichewa ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Pages in category "African given names" The following 55 pages are in this category, out of ...
Prefixes such as La/Le, Da/De, Ra/Re, or Ja/Je and suffixes such as -ique/iqua, -isha (for girls), -ari and -aun/awn (for boys) are common, as well as inventive spellings for common names. The book Baby Names Now: From Classic to Cool—The Very Last Word on First Names places the origins of "La" names in African-American culture in New Orleans ...
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The most popular given names vary nationally, regionally, and culturally. Lists of widely used given names can consist of those most often bestowed upon infants born within the last year, thus reflecting the current naming trends , or else be composed of the personal names occurring most often within the total population .
Books in the series have also won the Commonwealth Prize, the NOMA Award for African Writing, the Caine Prize for African Writing, and Guardian Fiction Prize. In 2002, at a celebration of Africa's 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century, Heinemann was given a prize, as 12 of the titles chosen were from the series.